rambling
Of a speech: meandering, long and digressingOf a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
» Listening to the orator's incoherent ramblings was excruciating.
Слушать бессвязные разглагольствования выступающего было мучительно. — shanghainese
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3 sensesOf a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
langatmig, weitschweifend, abschweifend
Confused and irregular; awkward.
Winding irregularly in various directions.
spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly
Examples
8 sentencesListening to the orator's incoherent ramblings was excruciating.
ruСлушать бессвязные разглагольствования выступающего было мучительно. — shanghainese
These words are sure to be the incoherent ramblings of a madman.
ruЭти слова, несомненно, - бессвязная болтовня сумасшедшего. — shanghainese
His ramblings are endless.
The ramblings are incoherent words from someone who is sick or depressed, that he mumbles while awake.
"Sentences?" once more, the shopkeeper was confused by Dima's strange ramblings.
Translations
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Synonyms
10 synonyms- of a path e.g.:meanderingwanderingwinding
- spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly:sprawlingstragglingstraggly
- (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects:digressivediscursiveexcursive