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rambling
adjective
1 rambling
Spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly.
synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly.
Roget 575:
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)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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Roget 139:
irregular,
uncertain,
unpunctual,
capricious,
desultory,
fitful,
flickering;
rambling,
rhapsodical;
spasmodic;
immethodical†,
unmethodical,
variable.
2 rambling
of e.g. speech and writing Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects:
— A rambling discursive book.
— A rambling speech about this and that.
synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive.
Roget 266:
traveling
etc.
v.;
ambulatory,
itinerant,
peripatetic,
roving,
rambling,
gadding,
discursive,
vagrant,
migratory,
monadic;
circumforanean†,
circumforaneous†;
noctivagrant†,
mundivagrant;
locomotive.
wayfaring,
wayworn;
travel-stained.
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Roget 279:
deviating
etc.
v.;
aberrant,
errant;
excursive,
discursive;
devious,
desultory,
loose;
rambling;
stray,
erratic,
vagrant,
undirected,
circuitous,
indirect,
zigzag;
crab-like.
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3 rambling
Of a path e.g.:
— Rambling forest paths.
synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding.
Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
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 [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
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 [Coll.],
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 [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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