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ramblingadjective passing from one topic to anotherI listened patiently to Mrs. Parsifal's rambling reminiscences, though I had no idea who "Dorothy" and "the stepson" were desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, discursive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, wandering circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout coherent, consistent, logicaldirect, focused(also focussed), straightforward, undeviating using or containing more words than necessary to express an ideathe new minister gives rambling sermons that, if they have a point, are lost on the congregation, which invariably falls asleep circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, verbose, windy, wordy chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, volubleperiphrasticredundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousembellished, embroidered, exaggeratedbombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin(also hifalutin) compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse brief, shortaphoristic, epigrammatic, sententiouscompendious, summaryabbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortenedabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a pointthe teenagers sat around the pizza parlor, rambling on about dating, homework, movies, and the local football team blathering (on), going on, maundering, rattling, running on deviating, digressing, straying, wanderingsidetrackingblabbering, blabbing, blithering, bumbling, burbling, chattering, chatting, driveling(or drivelling), drooling, gabbing, gabbling, gibbering, jabbering, pattering, prating, prattling, waffling running one's mouth to move about from place to place aimlesslyby tirelessly rambling around San Francisco for a week we probably saw more of it than many residents ever have batting, cruising, drifting, floating, gadding (about), gallivanting(also galavanting), kicking around, knocking (about), maundering, meandering, mooching, ranging, roaming, roving, traipsing, wandering ambling, sauntering, strollingdawdling, mopinggypsying, hoboing, tramping, vagabondingmilling (about or around)straggling, straying to travel by foot for exercise or pleasurewe're planning to ramble all over the highland moors when we're in Dartmoor ambling, hiking, perambulating, sauntering, strolling, tramping, tromping roaming, roving, wanderingperegrinating, traipsing, traversing, trekking, walkingmarching, promenadingpower walking ca. 1609 |