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In, or using, a winding, tortuous or non-direct route
“This highway, which followed the Indian trail, was a rambling road through woods, avoiding hills and swamps.”
Adverb for using, or expressed in, an excessive amount of words
“We sat through a rambling lecture about how Mr. Warren decided to build a violin from scratch.”
Adverb for digressing from subject to subject
“He grew almost apoplectic with impatience at my laborious attempts to keep up with his rambling kaleidoscope of people, places, precepts and prejudices.”
Adverb for lacking in coherence or logic
“His perplexed colleagues strained to understand his rambling speech.”
Adverb for sprawling or spread out (over an area)
“Open townships were large rambling villages crowded with small farmers, shopkeepers, artisans, and landless laborers.”
(of a plant) Adverb for putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants
“Around the barn, a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.”
Adverb for tending to move or travel from place to place
Adverb for unsteady and prone to unexpected changes
Adverb for extending over, or covering, a long, continuous space, curve or scope
Adverb for doing nothing useful
Adverb for deviating from an accepted standard
Adverb for in an acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence
Adverb for spreading or growing rapidly or profusely
Adverb for not strict or exact
Adverb for hard to comprehend mentally
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