rambling
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈræmbəlɪŋ/
:
extenso
- The path through the forest was rambling, with twists and turns that made it feel like an adventure.
- rambling farmhouse
- rambling mansion
- rambling house
Examples
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Our house was a rambling old farmhouse of seven bedrooms, verandas, porches, odd little turrets, towers, and three tall fieldstone chimneys.
Fiction book (2001) -
Then the inn, a rambling brick structure two stories high, with wings added on to an original modest core, had yellow lamplight showing behind its windows.
Fiction book (2000) -
This room, and the rest of the upstairs of this rambling stone house, felt cold.
Fiction book (2000) -
If he asked her to go back to the big, rambling house on Tara Road, she would go.
Fiction book (1999) -
The first light of morning colors the sky behind the Cherry Street Inn, a rambling, white Victorian bed and breakfast.
Fiction book (1993) -
The O'Toole house stood back off the road, a rambling jigsaw puzzle of a place she herself had helped make so.
Fiction book (2000) -
St. John's is a rambling castle of cement and stone, less grim and vast than my memory of it.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the fall, it gets dark earlier, and the cold makes it seem darker, which makes it harder to find your way around Sebastian's huge, rambling house.
Fiction book (1991) -
And so Jude and Aidan had moved into the rambling house at the edge of the village when they returned from their honeymoon in Venice.
Fiction book (2000) -
In its day, the house had been a family home, and it was big and rambling—part of it close to a hundred years old.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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4.4
Spreading out over a large area in an untidy way like a city or tree branches
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6.5
Having long, loose parts that look untidy, like hair or bushes
Not straight and turning many times like a mountain road
A path, river, or road that has many bends
Turning and curving instead of going in a straight line
Spread out in an untidy, scattered way, like houses far from a village
Antonyms
How Winding
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rambling comes from the older verb ramble, which meant 'to wander' or 'roam' across the land, so a rambling road or stream is one that wanders and twists instead of running straight.