rambling

The word “rambling” has 2 syllables: ram-bling

It's pronounced as /ˈræm.blɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for rambling?

In the thesaurus, “rambling” has 151 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rambling along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for rambling

ambling
aside
at length
babble
babbling
batting
blab
blabbering
blabbing
blithering
bombastic
bumbling
burbling
chatter
chattering
chatting
chatty
circuitous
circuitousness
circularity
circumlocution
circumlocutory
communicative
confused
conversational
covering
cruising
dawdling
desultory
deviating
devious
diffuse
diffuseness
digressing
digression
digressional
digressionary
digressive
discursive
disjointed
divagation
drifting
drivel
driveling
drivelling
drooling
embellished
embroidered
exaggerated
excursion
excursive
excursus
floating
gabbing
gabble
gabbling
gabby
galavanting
gallivanting
gangling
garrulous
gaseous
gassy
gibbering
going on
grandiloquent
grunt
grunting
gypsying
here and there
hifalutin
highfalutin
hiking
hoboing
incoherent
incongruous
indirect
irregular
jabber
jabbering
kicking around
leaping
logorrheic
long-winded
loquacious
marching
maundering
meandering
mooching
moping
mumble
murmur
murmuring
mutter
muttering
parenthesis
pattering
perambulating
peregrinating
periphrastic
pleonastic
power walking
prating
prattle
prattling
prolix
prolixity
promenading
random
ranging
rattling
redundant
repetitious
roaming
roundabout
roving
rumor
running on
sauntering
scattered
sidetracking
spreading
straggling
straying
strewn
strolling
talkative
talky
tangent
tautological
tautologous
trailing
traipsing
tramping
traversing
trekking
tromping
undertone
unplanned
vagabonding
verbose
verbosity
voluble
waffling
walking
wandering
whisper
windiness
windy
wordiness
wordy

Antonyms for rambling

abbreviated
abridged
abrupt
aphoristic
blunt
brief
brusk
brusque
coherent
compact
compendious
concise
condensed
connected
consistent
crisp
curt
direct
epigrammatic
focused
focussed
laconic
logical
pithy
sententious
short
shortened
snippy
straight
straightforward
succinct
summary
terse
undeviating

Meanings of rambling

verb
1. To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
2. To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
3. To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
noun
1. A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
2. A gentle hike.
adjective
1. Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
2. Confused and irregular; awkward.

Example Sentences

Rambling through the countryside, they stumbled upon a hidden waterfall.
His rambling speech wandered from topic to topic, leaving the audience confused.
We spent the afternoon on a leisurely rambling hike in the foothills.
Her rambling journal entries captured the essence of her travels across Europe.
The old mansion was known for its intricate layout and rambling corridors.

On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rambling, such as: abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, ambling, aphoristic, aside, at length.

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