[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ramble \ram"ble\ ra^m"b'l, v. i. imp.  p. p. rambled
   ra^m"b'ld; p. pr.  vb. n. rambling ra^m"bli^ng.
   for rammle, fr. prov. e. rame to roam. cf. roam.
   1. to walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any
      determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or
      irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the
      city; to ramble over the world.
      1913 webster

            he that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness,
            what is his liberty better than if driven up and
            down as a bubble by the wind?         --locke.
      1913 webster

   2. to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
      1913 webster

   3. to extend or grow at random. --thomson.
      1913 webster

   syn: to rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
        1913 webster
see also:
rambled rambling roam 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rambling \ram"bling\ ra^m"bli^ng, a.
   roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk,
   or building.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rambling
     adj 1: 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" syn: digressive, discursive, excursive
     2: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest
        paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a
        winding country road" syn: meanderinga, wanderinga,
         winding
see also:
digressive discursive excursive meanderinga wanderinga winding 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

288 moby thesaurus words for "rambling":
   greek to one, wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration,
   aberrative, adrift, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, aimless,
   aimlessness, alternating, ambagious, ambiguous, amorphous,
   babbling, bend, beyond understanding, bias, branching off, broken,
   bumming, by the way, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable,
   changeful, choppy, circuitous, circuitousness, circumforaneous,
   circumlocutional, circumlocutory, confused, corner, crook, curve,
   declination, delirious, departing, departure, desultoriness,
   desultory, detour, deviable, deviance, deviancy, deviant,
   deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness,
   diffuse, digression, digressive, digressiveness, disconnected,
   discontinuous, discursion, discursive, discursiveness, disjointed,
   disorganized, distracted, distrait, distraught, divagation,
   divagatory, divarication, divergence, diversion, dizzy, dogleg,
   double, drift, drifting, eccentric, endless, episodic, errant,
   errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation,
   fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting,
   floating, fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free,
   frantic, freakish, fugitive, gadding, giddy, guttering, gypsy-like,
   gypsyish, hairpin, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hoboism,
   illogical, immethodical, impenetrable, impetuous, impulsive,
   inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible,
   inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, indirection,
   infirm, inscrutable, interminable, intermittent, intermitting,
   irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, itineracy, itinerancy,
   itinerant, jerky, jumbled, labyrinthine, landloping, lightheaded,
   loose, lurching, maundering, mazy, meandering, mercurial,
   migrational, migratory, moody, muddled, nomad, nomadic, nomadism,
   nonuniform, numinous, obliquity, off, out-of-the-way,
   past comprehension, patchy, peregrination, pererration,
   peripatetic, periphrastic, planetary, prolix, ramble, ranging,
   ranting, raving, restless, roam, roaming, rough, roundabout, rove,
   roving, scatterbrained, scrambled, scrappy, serpentine, shapeless,
   sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shifty,
   shuffling, skew, slant, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic,
   spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, sprawling,
   spread out, spreading, staggering, straggling, straggly, stray,
   straying, strolling, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack,
   tortuous, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turn,
   turning, twist, twisting, unaccountable, uncertain, unconnected,
   uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal,
   uneven, unfathomable, unfixed, unintelligible, unknowable,
   unmethodical, unmetrical, unorganized, unplanned, unpredictable,
   unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsearchable,
   unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast,
   unsteady, unsystematic, vacillating, vagabond, vagabondage,
   vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, variable, variation,
   veer, veering, verbose, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
   wandering, wanderlust, wanton, warp, wavering, wavery, wavy,
   wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, wild, winding, wishy-washy,
   wobbling, wobbly, wordy, yaw, zigzag

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