Crossword clues for rambling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rambling \Ram"bling\ (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng), a. Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
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).]
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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. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
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To extend or grow at random.
--Thomson.Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1623, present participle adjective from ramble (v.).
Wiktionary
meandering, long and digressing of a speech. n. 1 A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction. 2 A gentle hike. v
(present participle of ramble English)
WordNet
adj. (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]
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]
Usage examples of "rambling".
Ward himself tried to be more affable, but succeeded only in provoking curiousity with his rambling accounts of chemical research.
Pique--Reconciliation--The First Meeting--A Philosophical Parenthesis My beautiful nun had not spoken to me, and I was glad of it, for I was so astonished, so completely under the spell of her beauty, that I might have given her a very poor opinion of my intelligence by the rambling answers which I should very likely have given to her questions.
Twenty yards beyond the gates was the villa itself, a rambling old-fashioned Edwardian building much behung with balconies.
On Campus Boul in the morning, a trio of hippies, lit up on crystal meth, were rambling up and down the walks, crooning that the rev had begun.
The first glance showed him that it was a long, low, rambling affair resembling in dejectedness the drooping gate.
Caffeine, we now know, can bring with it, in sufficient quantity, restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, psychomotor agitation, and several other of the well-known conditions of our accelerated times.
On the far side of the court they found a rambling old house made of fieldstone, with delicate leaded windows and tiny little cupolas.
Emeritus Evan Joyce lived in a rambling stone cottage a little way up the valley, with half an acre of garden, a few old fruit trees, about seven thousand books which lined the walls of all the rooms, and a handsome old desk of enormous proportions, situated in a large window and admirable for spreading out several files of notes, translations and authorities, without actually adding a line to the manuscript about the Goliard poets.
After some rambling conversation, I gave them what I had composed at the library, namely, the history of the treasure taken from the Countess Mathilda.
It was a crying shame, when one gave it a thought, that a man like Parson Hedley was worth but ten shillings a week, out of which he had to keep up this rambling cold barn of a house, while Parson Bainbridge not four miles away got a pound and lived on the fat of the land.
I have often spent the night rambling about with him, and I was amazed at his cynical boldness and impudence.
Low and rambling, with creeper-covered waIls built of mellow stone, it had mullioned windows, twisted barley- sugar chimneys and a hotchpotch of crooked roofs and ga bles.
Low and rambling, with creeper-covered walls built of mellow stone, it had mullioned windows, twisted barley-sugar chimneys and a hotchpotch of crooked roofs and gables.
Miss Amelia always kept to the broad, rambling generalities of the matter, going on endlessly in a low, thoughtful voice and getting nowhere -- while Cousin Lymon would interrupt her suddenly to pick up, magpie fashion, some detail which, even if unimportant, was at least concrete and bearing on some practical facet close at hand.
They were in one unit of a rambling compound of decrepit, obsessionally Art Deco guest structures, curving walls corroded and flaking on their seaward faces, half-moon windows crossed by thin bars of pitted chrome, queer unusable prisms of space with no access.