RAMBLING


Meaning of RAMBLING in English

adjective

1. : moving about from one place to another : wandering without purpose

envied the rambling deer

2. : straying from subject to subject : often incoherent : meandering

rambling quality of the average medieval tale — G.C.Sellery

talked … in his smiling rambling way — Hugh Walpole

talked in a rambling excited manner about her marriage — Ellen Glasgow

3. : stretching or spreading irregularly without or as if without plan

a rambling dispersed series of streamlets flowing erratically — L.C.Eiseley

the ridges along the valley climb into low rambling mountains — American Guide Series: Vermont

4. : informally designed : large , sprawling

a rambling old manor house — James Stern

lovely old Saxon church and rambling vicarage — Sam Pollock

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.