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Synonyms for rambling
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Princeton's WordNet
sprawling, straggling, rambling, stragglyadjective
spreading out in different directions
"sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
Synonyms:
wandering(a), sprawling, winding, straggly, discursive, excursive, digressive, meandering(a), stragglingdigressive, discursive, excursive, ramblingadjective
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
"amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
Synonyms:
wandering(a), sprawling, winding, straggly, discursive, excursive, digressive, meandering(a), dianoetic, tangential, stragglingmeandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective
of a path e.g.
"meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
Editors Contribution
circumlocutions
indirect way of speaking
Submitted by acronimous on February 2, 2014
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
ramblingadjective
Synonyms:
roving, wandering, discursive, digressive, incoherent
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#14880 | winding | |
#24972 | rambling | |
#34062 | sprawling | |
#46883 | tangential | |
#53297 | discursive | |
#125649 | straggling | |
#287122 | straggly | |
#312524 | digressive |
How to use rambling in a sentence?
Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
As the Dow nosedives on his watch, the president’s rambling, deceitful tax scam sales pitch reached an all-time low in Cincinnati.
Sure, I’ve written about women and sex and madhouses, just like Bukowski did, but I’ve also written about many other topics, often utilizing other stylistic methods in doing so. Bukowski would probably have been annoyed with the rambling tone of my poems in Cells.
There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines.”
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