Antonyms for ramblingram·bling

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1. sprawling, straggling, rambling, stragglyadjective

   spreading out in different directions

   "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"

   Antonyms:
   direct, tidy

   Synonyms:
   wandering(a), sprawling, winding, straggly, discursive, excursive, digressive, meandering(a), straggling

2. digressive, discursive, excursive, ramblingadjective

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   direct, tidy

   Synonyms:
   wandering(a), sprawling, winding, straggly, discursive, excursive, digressive, meandering(a), dianoetic, tangential, straggling

3. meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective

   of a path e.g.

   "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

   Antonyms:
   tidy, direct

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1. ramblingadjective

   Synonyms:
   roving, wandering, discursive, digressive, incoherent

How to use rambling in a sentence?

1. Adam Scaife:

   There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines.”

2. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

3. Jane Austen:

   One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   Sure, I’ve written about women and sex and madhouses, just like Bukowski did, but I’ve also written about many other topics, often utilizing other stylistic methods in doing so. Bukowski would probably have been annoyed with the rambling tone of my poems in Cells.

5. Barry Drexler:

   It's not just what you say, but how you say it, as soon as you start rambling and get nervous, you are giving it life and bringing attention to it.

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