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say it: RAM-bling
rambling is an adjective meaning "spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly". It carries 3 recorded senses.
spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly
“sprawling handwriting”
“straggling branches”
“straggly hair”
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
“amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things”
“a rambling discursive book”
“his excursive remarks”
“a rambling speech about this and that”
of a path e.g.
“meandering streams”
“rambling forest paths”
“the river followed its wandering course”
“a winding country road”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rambling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.