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Definition of rambling : Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

Synonyms:

digressive, parenthetical, dianoetic, straggly, unplanned, ambulatory, peripatetic, excursive, planned, meandering, scattered, tangential, itinerant, discursive, sprawling, vagrant, migratory, gangling, here and there, trailing, compact, indirect, approach, straggling, winding, parenthetic

disconnected, diffuse, incoherent

roving, tripping, trekking, strolling, cycling, moving, ambling, touring, nomadic, coursing, traveling, journeying, promenading, hiking, wayfaring, driving, jaunting, marching, walking, sojourning, roaming

excessive, chatty, long-winded, grandiloquent, ponderous, loquacious, windy, superfluous, endless, featherbedding, talkative, wordy, bombastic, lengthy, verbose

capricious, careless, reasonless, fleeting, fickle, flitting, ambivalent, impulsive, indecisive, systemless, whimsical, irregular, fanciful, sporadic, motiveless, flighty, wandering, chancy, nonsystematic, spastic, unmethodical, volatile, wayward, random, adrift, haphazard, arbitrary

Usage examples:

• No rambling individual but the helpless British Tourist wanted food and shelter from strangers in that part of Scotland; and nobody but Mistress Inchbare had food and shelter to sell. - "Man and Wife", Wilkie Collins.
• Have I been rambling? - "At Love's Cost", Charles Garvice.
• Mr. Bangs was neither pleased with the hotel, or able to get much information while there, and consequently changed his quarters to Mrs. Deck's boarding- house, a long, rambling brick building, that at one time had been a fine residence after the Southern style. - "The Spiritualists and the Detectives", Allan Pinkerton.