rambling 音标拼音: [r'æmblɪŋ] [r'æmbəlɪŋ]
a . 漫步的,流浪性的,散漫的
漫步的,流浪性的,散漫的
rambling adj 1 :
spreading out in different directions ; "
sprawling handwriting "; "
straggling branches "; "
straggly hair "
[
synonym : {
sprawling }, {
straggling }, {
rambling }, {
straggly }]
2 : (
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 " [
synonym :
{
digressive }, {
discursive }, {
excursive }, {
rambling }]
3 :
of a path e .
g .; "
meandering streams "; "
rambling forest paths "; "
the river followed its wandering course "; "
a winding country road " [
synonym : {
meandering (
a )}, {
rambling },
{
wandering (
a )}, {
winding }]
Rambling \
Ram "
bling \ (
r [
a ^]
m "
bl [
i ^]
ng ),
a .
Roving ;
wandering ;
discursive ;
as ,
a rambling fellow ,
talk ,
or building .
[
1913 Webster ]
Ramble \
Ram "
ble \ (
r [
a ^]
m "
b '
l ),
v .
i . [
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
To talk or write in a discursive ,
aimless way .
[
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3 .
To extend or grow at random . --
Thomson .
[
1913 Webster ]
Syn :
To rove ;
roam ;
wander ;
range ;
stroll .
[
1913 Webster ]
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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