Word Meanings - RAMBLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAMBLING)

• Aberration
• Wandering
• divergence
• deviation
• desultoriness
• rambling
• disconnectedness
• hallucination
• inconsecutiveness
• idiocy
• insanity
• exception
• abnormity
• Desultory
• Rambling
• discursive
• loose
• unmethodical
• superficial
• unsettled
• erratic
• inexact
• spasmodic
• fitful
• freakish
• aberrant
• unsystematic
• cursory
• roving
• hasty
• slight
• Loose
• Unbound
• detached
• flowing
• scattered
• sparse
• incompact
• vague
• dissolute
• licentious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAMBLING)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to RAMBLING)

• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• ROVINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• CORROVAL
  A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.