Definition of rambling in English:

rambling

adjective ˈramblɪŋˈræmb(ə)lɪŋ

1(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.
（文字，言谈）散漫芜杂的，不连贯的
a rambling six-hour speech
Scott's letter was long and rambling
Example sentencesExamples
- Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning.
- At this point, I'm very tempted to fall into a rambling rant of some form (nothing new there), but for some reason today, I just don't feel like it.
- His rambling writing style just lacks precision.
- For some reason my comments today are a bit rambling and I'm pretending we're having a real conversation - which I suppose we're not.
- That all changed with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the gently rambling tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition.
- Condensing lengthy, rambling stories written in different styles into a coherent narrative is a difficult task.
- I hope that my rambling answer fully addressed your thought-provoking question, Matthew.
- It's tough reading through rambling speeches, but he has some worthy food for thought.
- Though he wasn't trying to delay congressional action, his rambling speech had that effect.
- Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions.
- I feel like writing a long, rambling sort of entry, with lots of tangents and absolutely no warnings as to when I'm going to change the topic.
- I want the transcripts to be a reasonably accurate record insofar as that's possible: however, I'm amazed by how incoherent and rambling I appear to have been.
- And most of what he said was rambling, incoherent and quite clearly not said with me as the listener in mind.
- The full explanation by the artist of the new work was sent out to journalists and the Oxley Gallery mailing list in the form of a rambling and incoherent press release which we reproduced here in full last month.
- In fact you'll find it's fairly long and rambling.
- I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all.
- In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times.
- He would tell us rambling stories - such as the one about two flies called Izzy and Dizzy who travelled about the country staying in cheap lodgings - perhaps based on his own recollection.
- He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
- King himself made what some present described as a rambling speech.
Synonyms
long-winded, garrulous, verbose, wordy, prolix
digressive, wandering, maundering
roundabout, circuitous, diffuse, discursive, circumlocutory, oblique, periphrastic
disconnected, disjointed, ill-thought-out, incoherent, illogical
2(of a plant) putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants.
（植物）蔓生的，蔓延的；攀爬的，攀缘的
rambling roses
蔓长的蔷薇。
Example sentencesExamples
- Large-leaved vines and white rambling roses will clothe the walls of the castle to give a romantic effect.
- My rambling rose is ‘Kew Rambler’ which we have planted at the foot of a large cherry tree.
- His brother Richard's cremated remains are in the same garden, under a white rambling rose bush planted by him and his mother, Estella.
- Deter intruders and enchant your neighbours with rambling roses on walls or fences.
- At first, weeding the garden pained me as I had grown to love the rambling weeds and all the wonders that they had to offer.
- For many, roses are the symbol of a well-cared-for home, evoking images of that picket-fenced cottage awash with rambling roses.
- The pergola is perfect for growing rambling roses.
- In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them.
- Prune rambling roses by cutting down to ground level growths that have flowered this year.
- We've kept it simple, warm and welcoming, and have avoided the urge to dress it with rambling roses and ornament of any kind.
- Linda also admired the white rambling roses round a swimming pool while the couple were on holiday: there is now a bank up by the immaculate croquet lawn planted with 12,000 of them.
- Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
Synonyms
trailing, creeping, straggling, vining, prostrate
1. 2.1 (of a building or path) spreading or winding irregularly in various directions.
  （建筑物，小径）布局零乱的
  a big old rambling house
  一座大而无当的老房子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It boasted three rambling houses, a school and a post office.
  Winnie Burke of Sooey recalls when her home was ‘a rambling house’ like many were in those days.
  As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees.
  Leaving his rambling ranch house in fashionable North Dallas, he drove his Jaguar to his psychiatric offices.
  They renovated the dilapidated and rambling buildings as much as they could afford to and began to update the studio's ageing equipment.
  This rambling museum is the antithesis of modern interpretative centres.
  At the corner of Pottery Road is the large rambling house well over 100 years old belonging to K G Shashidhar.
  The rambling house remains in the name of his wife, Penelope, after it was bought for them by her parents in 1994.
  The family lived in a large rambling house on Hamond Street (now called Orleans).
  After the war the rambling building was turned into an hotel by the Ferruccio family.
  This rambling home has a sumptuous interior and manicured grounds but is not particularly close to any large urban centres.
  The previous campus home for the arts program was a series of rambling barns.
  There are numerous rambling barns and outhouses, and the gardens and two ornamental lakes are exquisite.
  He braked outside a rambling Tudor-style house that had been recently converted into apartments.
  The owners, Gregory and Celeste Shade, bought the huge, rambling house on Brookover Street more or less on a whim.
  Although in poor condition, refurbishment has already begun on this rambling residence.
  This rambling temple complex is the largest wooden building in the world.
  Evacuated in wartime to the rambling country house of kindly Professor Kirk, they can't resist exploring its huge stairways.
  Over the course of his life he built this great series of vast rambling palaces, one after the other.
  Contrast living in a small flat with a gorgeous rambling house.
  Synonyms
  winding, twisting, twisty, labyrinthine
  sprawling, spreading, straggling
2. 2.2 (of a person) travelling from place to place; wandering.
  （人）闲逛的，漫游的；漫步的；流浪的，徘徊的
  a rambling man
  （乡间）漫游俱乐部。

noun ˈramblɪŋ

mass noun

The activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure.
（乡间）漫游
as modifier a rambling club
Example sentencesExamples
- Lose a spouse and find another, lose a job and retrain for another, give up mountaineering and take up rambling.
- After much leisurely rambling, we made tracks for Provincetown, a charming seaside town.
- If rambling in the countryside and breathing fresh air works better, then get your boots on…

Derivatives

ramblingly

adverb ˈramblɪŋliˈræmb(ə)lɪŋli

Many of her speeches could sound ramblingly incoherent.
Example sentencesExamples
- Also, they tend to relate a clear and definite series of events rather than a ramblingly incoherent jumble.

Rhymes

brambling

Definition of rambling in US English:

rambling

adjectiveˈræmb(ə)lɪŋˈramb(ə)liNG

1(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.
（文字，言谈）散漫芜杂的，不连贯的
Example sentencesExamples
- King himself made what some present described as a rambling speech.
- At this point, I'm very tempted to fall into a rambling rant of some form (nothing new there), but for some reason today, I just don't feel like it.
- Though he wasn't trying to delay congressional action, his rambling speech had that effect.
- In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times.
- The full explanation by the artist of the new work was sent out to journalists and the Oxley Gallery mailing list in the form of a rambling and incoherent press release which we reproduced here in full last month.
- In fact you'll find it's fairly long and rambling.
- Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning.
- And most of what he said was rambling, incoherent and quite clearly not said with me as the listener in mind.
- He would tell us rambling stories - such as the one about two flies called Izzy and Dizzy who travelled about the country staying in cheap lodgings - perhaps based on his own recollection.
- I want the transcripts to be a reasonably accurate record insofar as that's possible: however, I'm amazed by how incoherent and rambling I appear to have been.
- That all changed with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the gently rambling tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition.
- His rambling writing style just lacks precision.
- It's tough reading through rambling speeches, but he has some worthy food for thought.
- For some reason my comments today are a bit rambling and I'm pretending we're having a real conversation - which I suppose we're not.
- Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions.
- I feel like writing a long, rambling sort of entry, with lots of tangents and absolutely no warnings as to when I'm going to change the topic.
- I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all.
- I hope that my rambling answer fully addressed your thought-provoking question, Matthew.
- He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
- Condensing lengthy, rambling stories written in different styles into a coherent narrative is a difficult task.
Synonyms
long-winded, garrulous, verbose, wordy, prolix
2(of a plant) putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants; climbing.
（植物）蔓生的，蔓延的；攀爬的，攀缘的
rambling roses
蔓长的蔷薇。
Example sentencesExamples
- We've kept it simple, warm and welcoming, and have avoided the urge to dress it with rambling roses and ornament of any kind.
- In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them.
- The pergola is perfect for growing rambling roses.
- His brother Richard's cremated remains are in the same garden, under a white rambling rose bush planted by him and his mother, Estella.
- My rambling rose is ‘Kew Rambler’ which we have planted at the foot of a large cherry tree.
- Linda also admired the white rambling roses round a swimming pool while the couple were on holiday: there is now a bank up by the immaculate croquet lawn planted with 12,000 of them.
- Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
- For many, roses are the symbol of a well-cared-for home, evoking images of that picket-fenced cottage awash with rambling roses.
- Deter intruders and enchant your neighbours with rambling roses on walls or fences.
- Prune rambling roses by cutting down to ground level growths that have flowered this year.
- At first, weeding the garden pained me as I had grown to love the rambling weeds and all the wonders that they had to offer.
- Large-leaved vines and white rambling roses will clothe the walls of the castle to give a romantic effect.
Synonyms
trailing, creeping, straggling, vining, prostrate
1. 2.1 (of a building or path) spreading or winding irregularly in various directions.
  （建筑物，小径）布局零乱的
  a big old rambling house
  一座大而无当的老房子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This rambling temple complex is the largest wooden building in the world.
  As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees.
  At the corner of Pottery Road is the large rambling house well over 100 years old belonging to K G Shashidhar.
  It boasted three rambling houses, a school and a post office.
  The rambling house remains in the name of his wife, Penelope, after it was bought for them by her parents in 1994.
  The owners, Gregory and Celeste Shade, bought the huge, rambling house on Brookover Street more or less on a whim.
  After the war the rambling building was turned into an hotel by the Ferruccio family.
  This rambling museum is the antithesis of modern interpretative centres.
  There are numerous rambling barns and outhouses, and the gardens and two ornamental lakes are exquisite.
  The previous campus home for the arts program was a series of rambling barns.
  Over the course of his life he built this great series of vast rambling palaces, one after the other.
  Leaving his rambling ranch house in fashionable North Dallas, he drove his Jaguar to his psychiatric offices.
  The family lived in a large rambling house on Hamond Street (now called Orleans).
  Although in poor condition, refurbishment has already begun on this rambling residence.
  He braked outside a rambling Tudor-style house that had been recently converted into apartments.
  Evacuated in wartime to the rambling country house of kindly Professor Kirk, they can't resist exploring its huge stairways.
  This rambling home has a sumptuous interior and manicured grounds but is not particularly close to any large urban centres.
  They renovated the dilapidated and rambling buildings as much as they could afford to and began to update the studio's ageing equipment.
  Contrast living in a small flat with a gorgeous rambling house.
  Winnie Burke of Sooey recalls when her home was ‘a rambling house’ like many were in those days.
  Synonyms
  winding, twisting, twisty, labyrinthine
2. 2.2 (of a person) traveling from place to place; wandering.
  （人）闲逛的，漫游的；漫步的；流浪的，徘徊的
  a rambling man
  （乡间）漫游俱乐部。

单词	rambling
释义	Definition of rambling in English: rambling adjective ˈramblɪŋˈræmb(ə)lɪŋ 1(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential. （文字，言谈）散漫芜杂的，不连贯的 a rambling six-hour speech Scott's letter was long and rambling Example sentencesExamples Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning. At this point, I'm very tempted to fall into a rambling rant of some form (nothing new there), but for some reason today, I just don't feel like it. His rambling writing style just lacks precision. For some reason my comments today are a bit rambling and I'm pretending we're having a real conversation - which I suppose we're not. That all changed with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the gently rambling tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition. Condensing lengthy, rambling stories written in different styles into a coherent narrative is a difficult task. I hope that my rambling answer fully addressed your thought-provoking question, Matthew. It's tough reading through rambling speeches, but he has some worthy food for thought. Though he wasn't trying to delay congressional action, his rambling speech had that effect. Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions. I feel like writing a long, rambling sort of entry, with lots of tangents and absolutely no warnings as to when I'm going to change the topic. I want the transcripts to be a reasonably accurate record insofar as that's possible: however, I'm amazed by how incoherent and rambling I appear to have been. And most of what he said was rambling, incoherent and quite clearly not said with me as the listener in mind. The full explanation by the artist of the new work was sent out to journalists and the Oxley Gallery mailing list in the form of a rambling and incoherent press release which we reproduced here in full last month. In fact you'll find it's fairly long and rambling. I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all. In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times. He would tell us rambling stories - such as the one about two flies called Izzy and Dizzy who travelled about the country staying in cheap lodgings - perhaps based on his own recollection. He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions. King himself made what some present described as a rambling speech. Synonyms long-winded, garrulous, verbose, wordy, prolix digressive, wandering, maundering roundabout, circuitous, diffuse, discursive, circumlocutory, oblique, periphrastic disconnected, disjointed, ill-thought-out, incoherent, illogical 2(of a plant) putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants. （植物）蔓生的，蔓延的；攀爬的，攀缘的 rambling roses 蔓长的蔷薇。 Example sentencesExamples Large-leaved vines and white rambling roses will clothe the walls of the castle to give a romantic effect. My rambling rose is ‘Kew Rambler’ which we have planted at the foot of a large cherry tree. His brother Richard's cremated remains are in the same garden, under a white rambling rose bush planted by him and his mother, Estella. Deter intruders and enchant your neighbours with rambling roses on walls or fences. At first, weeding the garden pained me as I had grown to love the rambling weeds and all the wonders that they had to offer. For many, roses are the symbol of a well-cared-for home, evoking images of that picket-fenced cottage awash with rambling roses. The pergola is perfect for growing rambling roses. In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them. Prune rambling roses by cutting down to ground level growths that have flowered this year. We've kept it simple, warm and welcoming, and have avoided the urge to dress it with rambling roses and ornament of any kind. Linda also admired the white rambling roses round a swimming pool while the couple were on holiday: there is now a bank up by the immaculate croquet lawn planted with 12,000 of them. Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins. Synonyms trailing, creeping, straggling, vining, prostrate 2.1 (of a building or path) spreading or winding irregularly in various directions. （建筑物，小径）布局零乱的 a big old rambling house 一座大而无当的老房子。 Example sentencesExamples It boasted three rambling houses, a school and a post office. Winnie Burke of Sooey recalls when her home was ‘a rambling house’ like many were in those days. As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees. Leaving his rambling ranch house in fashionable North Dallas, he drove his Jaguar to his psychiatric offices. They renovated the dilapidated and rambling buildings as much as they could afford to and began to update the studio's ageing equipment. This rambling museum is the antithesis of modern interpretative centres. At the corner of Pottery Road is the large rambling house well over 100 years old belonging to K G Shashidhar. The rambling house remains in the name of his wife, Penelope, after it was bought for them by her parents in 1994. The family lived in a large rambling house on Hamond Street (now called Orleans). After the war the rambling building was turned into an hotel by the Ferruccio family. This rambling home has a sumptuous interior and manicured grounds but is not particularly close to any large urban centres. The previous campus home for the arts program was a series of rambling barns. There are numerous rambling barns and outhouses, and the gardens and two ornamental lakes are exquisite. He braked outside a rambling Tudor-style house that had been recently converted into apartments. The owners, Gregory and Celeste Shade, bought the huge, rambling house on Brookover Street more or less on a whim. Although in poor condition, refurbishment has already begun on this rambling residence. This rambling temple complex is the largest wooden building in the world. Evacuated in wartime to the rambling country house of kindly Professor Kirk, they can't resist exploring its huge stairways. Over the course of his life he built this great series of vast rambling palaces, one after the other. Contrast living in a small flat with a gorgeous rambling house. Synonyms winding, twisting, twisty, labyrinthine sprawling, spreading, straggling 2.2 (of a person) travelling from place to place; wandering. （人）闲逛的，漫游的；漫步的；流浪的，徘徊的 a rambling man （乡间）漫游俱乐部。 noun ˈramblɪŋ mass noun The activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure. （乡间）漫游 as modifier a rambling club Example sentencesExamples Lose a spouse and find another, lose a job and retrain for another, give up mountaineering and take up rambling. After much leisurely rambling, we made tracks for Provincetown, a charming seaside town. If rambling in the countryside and breathing fresh air works better, then get your boots on… Derivatives ramblingly adverb ˈramblɪŋliˈræmb(ə)lɪŋli Many of her speeches could sound ramblingly incoherent. Example sentencesExamples Also, they tend to relate a clear and definite series of events rather than a ramblingly incoherent jumble. Rhymes brambling Definition of rambling in US English: rambling adjectiveˈræmb(ə)lɪŋˈramb(ə)liNG 1(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential. （文字，言谈）散漫芜杂的，不连贯的 Example sentencesExamples King himself made what some present described as a rambling speech. At this point, I'm very tempted to fall into a rambling rant of some form (nothing new there), but for some reason today, I just don't feel like it. Though he wasn't trying to delay congressional action, his rambling speech had that effect. In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times. The full explanation by the artist of the new work was sent out to journalists and the Oxley Gallery mailing list in the form of a rambling and incoherent press release which we reproduced here in full last month. In fact you'll find it's fairly long and rambling. Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning. And most of what he said was rambling, incoherent and quite clearly not said with me as the listener in mind. He would tell us rambling stories - such as the one about two flies called Izzy and Dizzy who travelled about the country staying in cheap lodgings - perhaps based on his own recollection. I want the transcripts to be a reasonably accurate record insofar as that's possible: however, I'm amazed by how incoherent and rambling I appear to have been. That all changed with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the gently rambling tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition. His rambling writing style just lacks precision. It's tough reading through rambling speeches, but he has some worthy food for thought. For some reason my comments today are a bit rambling and I'm pretending we're having a real conversation - which I suppose we're not. Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions. I feel like writing a long, rambling sort of entry, with lots of tangents and absolutely no warnings as to when I'm going to change the topic. I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all. I hope that my rambling answer fully addressed your thought-provoking question, Matthew. He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions. Condensing lengthy, rambling stories written in different styles into a coherent narrative is a difficult task. Synonyms long-winded, garrulous, verbose, wordy, prolix 2(of a plant) putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants; climbing. （植物）蔓生的，蔓延的；攀爬的，攀缘的 rambling roses 蔓长的蔷薇。 Example sentencesExamples We've kept it simple, warm and welcoming, and have avoided the urge to dress it with rambling roses and ornament of any kind. In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them. The pergola is perfect for growing rambling roses. His brother Richard's cremated remains are in the same garden, under a white rambling rose bush planted by him and his mother, Estella. My rambling rose is ‘Kew Rambler’ which we have planted at the foot of a large cherry tree. Linda also admired the white rambling roses round a swimming pool while the couple were on holiday: there is now a bank up by the immaculate croquet lawn planted with 12,000 of them. Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins. For many, roses are the symbol of a well-cared-for home, evoking images of that picket-fenced cottage awash with rambling roses. Deter intruders and enchant your neighbours with rambling roses on walls or fences. Prune rambling roses by cutting down to ground level growths that have flowered this year. At first, weeding the garden pained me as I had grown to love the rambling weeds and all the wonders that they had to offer. Large-leaved vines and white rambling roses will clothe the walls of the castle to give a romantic effect. Synonyms trailing, creeping, straggling, vining, prostrate 2.1 (of a building or path) spreading or winding irregularly in various directions. （建筑物，小径）布局零乱的 a big old rambling house 一座大而无当的老房子。 Example sentencesExamples This rambling temple complex is the largest wooden building in the world. As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees. At the corner of Pottery Road is the large rambling house well over 100 years old belonging to K G Shashidhar. It boasted three rambling houses, a school and a post office. The rambling house remains in the name of his wife, Penelope, after it was bought for them by her parents in 1994. The owners, Gregory and Celeste Shade, bought the huge, rambling house on Brookover Street more or less on a whim. After the war the rambling building was turned into an hotel by the Ferruccio family. This rambling museum is the antithesis of modern interpretative centres. There are numerous rambling barns and outhouses, and the gardens and two ornamental lakes are exquisite. The previous campus home for the arts program was a series of rambling barns. Over the course of his life he built this great series of vast rambling palaces, one after the other. Leaving his rambling ranch house in fashionable North Dallas, he drove his Jaguar to his psychiatric offices. The family lived in a large rambling house on Hamond Street (now called Orleans). Although in poor condition, refurbishment has already begun on this rambling residence. He braked outside a rambling Tudor-style house that had been recently converted into apartments. Evacuated in wartime to the rambling country house of kindly Professor Kirk, they can't resist exploring its huge stairways. This rambling home has a sumptuous interior and manicured grounds but is not particularly close to any large urban centres. They renovated the dilapidated and rambling buildings as much as they could afford to and began to update the studio's ageing equipment. Contrast living in a small flat with a gorgeous rambling house. Winnie Burke of Sooey recalls when her home was ‘a rambling house’ like many were in those days. Synonyms winding, twisting, twisty, labyrinthine 2.2 (of a person) traveling from place to place; wandering. （人）闲逛的，漫游的；漫步的；流浪的，徘徊的 a rambling man （乡间）漫游俱乐部。
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