Meaning

3 senses
  1. Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.

    langatmig, weitschweifend, abschweifend

  2. Confused and irregular; awkward.

  3. Winding irregularly in various directions.

    spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Listening to the orator's incoherent ramblings was excruciating.

    ruСлушать бессвязные разглагольствования выступающего было мучительно.

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  2. These words are sure to be the incoherent ramblings of a madman.

    ruЭти слова, несомненно, - бессвязная болтовня сумасшедшего.

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  3. His ramblings are endless.

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  4. The ramblings are incoherent words from someone who is sick or depressed, that he mumbles while awake.

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  5. "Sentences?" once more, the shopkeeper was confused by Dima's strange ramblings.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
long and digressing of a speech:

Synonyms

10 synonyms
digressing:desultory
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rambling — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto