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rambling
adjective
1 a long, rambling speech:
long-winded, garrulous, verbose, wordy, prolix;
digressive, wandering, maundering;
roundabout, circuitous, diffuse, discursive, circumlocutory, oblique, periphrastic;
disconnected, disjointed, ill-thought-out, incoherent, illogical.
antonyms concise, pithy.
2 a maze of narrow, rambling streets:
winding, twisting, twisty, labyrinthine;
sprawling, spreading, straggling.
3 a rambling rose:
trailing, creeping, straggling, vining, prostrate.