rambling

rambling

adjective

Definition of RAMBLING

1

passing from one topic to another <I listened patiently to Mrs. Parsifal's rambling reminiscences, though I had no idea who “Dorothy” and “the stepson” were>

Synonyms desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, wandering

Related Words circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout

Near Antonyms coherent, consistent, logical; direct, focused (also focussed), straightforward, undeviating

2

using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea <the new minister gives rambling sermons that, if they have a point, are lost on the congregation, which invariably falls asleep>

Synonyms circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy

Related Words chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble; periphrastic; redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous; embellished, embroidered, exaggerated; bombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin)

Near Antonyms brief, short; aphoristic, epigrammatic, sententious; compendious, summary; abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened; abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy

Antonyms compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse