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[ ram -bling ]

• aimlessly wandering.

a rambling brook.

a rambling mansion.

a rambling novel.

Synonyms: discursive

/ ˈræmblɪŋ /

a rambling old house

• (of speech or writing) lacking a coherent plan; diffuse and disconnected
• (of a plant, esp a rose) profusely climbing and straggling
• nomadic; wandering

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Other words from.

• rambling·ly adverb
• rambling·ness noun
• un·rambling adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rambling 1

Example Sentences

This too has become a full-time thing, where crispy chicken and fried mushrooms are served in the restaurant’s rambling garden on the water.

We took a hike on an obscure, overgrown trail that led pretty much nowhere—just the sort of long, delightful, pointless rambling I like these days.

Cummings sat down across from Pitcher’s desk, but before Pitcher could say anything, Cummings dove into a rambling saga centered in Valdez, Alaska, where he’d lived for more than two decades.

So there is my rant, I dig a bit more into this on my personal blog if you want more of this rambling.

In 1973, Bedford finally completed a rambling unscholarly biography of her former mentor, Aldous Huxley.

Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly.

In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.

The rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless.

After about one minute of rambling, a woman runs up on stage and directs someone to turn his microphone off.

If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

The modern castle is a massive, rambling, brown-stone building less than a hundred years old, now servingPg 161 as a county court.

Our efforts proved successful and a neat, courteous young woman showed us over the rambling house.

Black Hoof and his braves had a great fear of the girl when she began her rambling talk.

The thoughts chased one another round my brain and back again, all running into one another in their rambling.

They amused themselves by fishing, shooting and rambling about.

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• long-winded

Definition of 'aimlessly'

Aimlessly in british english, aimless in british english.

Examples of 'aimlessly' in a sentence aimlessly

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Definition of wander

intransitive verb

transitive verb

• gad (about)
• galavant
• kick around
• knock (about)

wander , roam , ramble , rove , traipse , meander mean to go about from place to place usually without a plan or definite purpose.

wander implies an absence of or an indifference to a fixed course.

roam suggests wandering about freely and often far afield.

ramble stresses carelessness and indifference to one's course or objective.

rove suggests vigorous and sometimes purposeful roaming.

traipse implies a course that is erratic but may sometimes be purposeful.

meander implies a winding or intricate course suggestive of aimless or listless wandering.

Examples of wander in a Sentence

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Word History

Middle English wandren , from Old English wandrian ; akin to Middle High German wandern to wander, Old English windan to wind, twist

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a

Phrases Containing wander

• go for a wander
• have / take a wander

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“Wander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wander. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.

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Meaning of aimless in English

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• aimless He was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position.
• directionless The party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern.
• purposeless The job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless.
• adrift His son has just been utterly adrift since dropping out of college.
• empty After losing him, I just feel empty inside.
• aimlessness
• be at a loose end idiom
• fruitlessly
• fruitlessness
• no good idiom
• unrealistic
• unrealistically
• unseriousness
• until you are blue in the face idiom
• unviability

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Definition of wander verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• + adv./prep. She wandered aimlessly around the streets.
• We wandered back towards the car.
• wander something The child was found wandering the streets alone.
• Don't go wandering all over the house!
• He just wandered in one day and asked for a job.
• He wandered into a bar and ordered a drink.
• One day she wandered further afield.
• Simply wandering is a pleasure in itself.
• The cattle are allowed to wander freely.
• They found him wandering around aimlessly.
• Visitors are free to wander through the gardens and woods.
• Cattle and sheep wander freely on the hilltops.
• During the day I would wander the streets, asking passers-by for a few cents.
• He was found wandering in the road late one night.
• She had spent her life wandering from place to place.
• They spent a couple of hours wandering through the markets.
• disconsolately
• allow somebody/​something to
• let somebody/​something
• find somebody wandering

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