Synonyms of ramble

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noun (1)

1

as in excursion

a short trip for pleasure

the couple's weekend rambles up and down the valley in search of interesting antiques

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excursion
• jaunt
• tour
• walk
• outing
• sally
• journey
• travel(s)
• expedition
• sortie
• junket
• spin
• detour
• odyssey
• sashay
• voyage
• hike
• trek
• peregrination
• pilgrimage
• safari
• circuit

2

as in stroll

a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure

our usual practice is to take a ramble around the neighborhood after dinner

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stroll
• walk
• wander
• saunter
• trip
• amble
• constitutional
• perambulation
• turn
• parade
• tour
• travel
• range
• march
• promenade
• hike
• trek
• excursion
• expedition
• traverse
• jaunt
• tramp
• traversal
• peregrination
• outing
• walkabout
• sally
• traipse
• pilgrimage
• progress
• spin
• paseo
• junket
• safari
• sashay

ramble

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verb (1)

1

as in to rattle

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point

the teenagers sat around the pizza parlor, rambling on about dating, homework, movies, and the local football team

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rattle
• wander
• digress
• maunder
• go on
• blather (on)
• run on
• chat
• deviate
• stray
• sidetrack
• run one's mouth
• blabber
• blither
• chatter
• prattle
• blab
• gibber
• burble
• gabble
• prate
• waffle
• gab
• drool
• jabber
• patter
• drivel
• bumble

2

as in to wander

to move about from place to place aimlessly

by tirelessly rambling around San Francisco for a week we probably saw more of it than many residents ever have

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wander
• roam
• drift
• stroll
• meander
• cruise
• float
• rove
• range
• gallivant
• traipse
• knock (about)
• galavant
• amble
• mooch
• saunter
• gad (about)
• maunder
• bat
• dawdle
• kick around
• mope
• mill (about or around)
• straggle
• stray
• vagabond
• hobo
• gypsy
• tramp

3

as in to stroll

to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure

we're planning to ramble all over the highland moors when we're in Dartmoor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stroll
• wander
• walk
• saunter
• hike
• amble
• roam
• tramp
• perambulate
• rove
• trek
• traverse
• march
• traipse
• tromp
• promenade
• peregrinate
• power walk

rambling

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adjective

1

as in wandering

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 & Similar Words

• wandering
• excursive
• indirect
• digressive
• discursive
• leaping
• meandering
• roundabout
• desultory
• maundering
• digressional
• digressionary
• circuitous
• deviating
• devious

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• consistent
• logical
• coherent
• direct
• focused
• straightforward
• focussed
• undeviating

2

as in talkative

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 & Similar Words

• talkative
• exaggerated
• wordy
• prolix
• verbose
• long-winded
• conversational
• redundant
• circuitous
• communicative
• diffuse
• garrulous
• pleonastic
• circumlocutory
• windy
• logorrheic
• loquacious
• talky
• repetitious
• chatty
• voluble
• tautological
• periphrastic
• gabby
• bombastic
• tautologous
• gaseous
• grandiloquent
• embroidered
• gassy
• embellished
• hifalutin
• highfalutin

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pithy
• concise
• succinct
• short
• brief
• terse
• compact
• crisp
• summary
• sententious
• epigrammatic
• aphoristic
• compendious
• abbreviated
• condensed
• blunt
• laconic
• abridged
• curt
• abrupt
• brusque
• shortened
• snippy
• brusk

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noun (2)

1

as in babbling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• babbling
• drivelling
• babble
• prattle
• prattling
• maundering
• jabbering
• gabbling
• chattering
• gabble
• jabber
• chatter
• blabbing
• driveling
• blab
• drivel
• whisper
• rumor
• muttering
• murmuring
• mumble
• undertone
• mutter
• grunting
• murmur
• grunt

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as in prolixity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prolixity
• wordiness
• verbosity
• digression
• tangent
• circularity
• diffuseness
• aside
• circumlocution
• windiness
• excursion
• excursus
• parenthesis
• circuitousness
• divagation

rambling

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verb (2)

present participle of ramble

1

as in rattling

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point

the teenagers sat around the pizza parlor, rambling on about dating, homework, movies, and the local football team

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rattling
• wandering
• maundering
• going on
• blathering (on)
• digressing
• running on
• chatting
• straying
• deviating
• running one's mouth
• blabbering
• sidetracking
• drivelling
• waffling
• blithering
• prattling
• blabbing
• chattering
• burbling
• jabbering
• gibbering
• prating
• gabbling
• gabbing
• drooling
• driveling
• pattering
• bumbling

2

as in roaming

to move about from place to place aimlessly

by tirelessly rambling around San Francisco for a week we probably saw more of it than many residents ever have

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wandering
• roaming
• drifting
• meandering
• strolling
• cruising
• floating
• ranging
• knocking (about)
• roving
• gallivanting
• traipsing
• galavanting
• gadding (about)
• maundering
• batting
• sauntering
• ambling
• mooching
• kicking around
• dawdling
• moping
• straggling
• straying
• milling (about or around)
• tramping
• vagabonding
• gypsying
• hoboing

3

as in strolling

to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure

we're planning to ramble all over the highland moors when we're in Dartmoor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strolling
• wandering
• walking
• hiking
• sauntering
• ambling
• roaming
• tramping
• perambulating
• roving
• traversing
• marching
• trekking
• traipsing
• tromping
• promenading
• peregrinating
• power walking