rambling

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: ram=bling

CIDE DICTIONARY

rambling, a. 

 Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rambling, adj.
1 peripatetic, wandering.
2 disconnected, desultory, incoherent.
3 (of a house, street, etc.) irregularly arranged.
4 (of a plant) straggling, climbing.

Derivative

ramblingly adv.

THESAURUS

rambling

Greek to one, Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, adrift, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, aimless, aimlessness, alternating, ambagious, ambiguous, amorphous, babbling, bend, beyond understanding, bias, branching off, broken, bumming, by the way, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy, circuitous, circuitousness, circumforaneous, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, confused, corner, crook, curve, declination, delirious, departing, departure, desultoriness, desultory, detour, deviable, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, diffuse, digression, digressive, digressiveness, disconnected, discontinuous, discursion, discursive, discursiveness, disjointed, disorganized, distracted, distrait, distraught, divagation, divagatory, divarication, divergence, diversion, dizzy, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, eccentric, endless, episodic, errant, errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, frantic, freakish, fugitive, gadding, giddy, guttering, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hairpin, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hoboism, illogical, immethodical, impenetrable, impetuous, impulsive, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, indirection, infirm, inscrutable, interminable, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, itineracy, itinerancy, itinerant, jerky, jumbled, labyrinthine, landloping, lightheaded, loose, lurching, maundering, mazy, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, moody, muddled, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, nonuniform, numinous, obliquity, off, out-of-the-way, past comprehension, patchy, peregrination, pererration, peripatetic, periphrastic, planetary, prolix, ramble, ranging, ranting, raving, restless, roam, roaming, rough, roundabout, rove, roving, scatterbrained, scrambled, scrappy, serpentine, shapeless, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shifty, shuffling, skew, slant, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, sprawling, spread out, spreading, staggering, straggling, straggly, stray, straying, strolling, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, tortuous, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turn, turning, twist, twisting, unaccountable, uncertain, unconnected, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unfathomable, unfixed, unintelligible, unknowable, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorganized, unplanned, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsearchable, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, vacillating, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, variable, variation, veer, veering, verbose, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanderlust, wanton, warp, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, wild, winding, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly, wordy, yaw, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

rambling

Feebleness

N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.

Irregularity of recurrence

N irregularity of recurrence, irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality, fitfulness, capriciousness, ecrhythmus, irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering, rambling, rhapsodical, spasmodic, immethodical, unmethodical, variable, irregularly, by fits and starts.

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.