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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rambling \Ram"bling\ (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng), adjective Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ramble \Ram"ble\ (r[a^]m"b'l), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rambled} (r[a^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rambling} (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng).] [For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf. {Roam}.]
1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind? --Locke.
2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
3. To extend or grow at random. --Thomson.
Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rambling
adjective
1: (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" [syn: {digressive}, {discursive}, {excursive}]
2: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: {meandering(a)}, {wandering(a)}, {winding}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
288 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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