Word.ws English Dictionary

rambly

rambly adjective: tending to ramble, to wander aimlessly or to make meandering digressions.

Adjective

rambly (comparative more rambly, superlative most rambly)

  1. Tending to ramble, to wander aimlessly or to make meandering digressions.
    • But the mere mention of garden design is anathema to many people; they love a "rambly" garden. Such a garden is based on rambly ideas. This shrub would "look well" here; a bed of roses would "be just the thing" there; […]1947, Kenneth Hamlyn McConnel, Rex Hazlewood, Planning the Australian homestead, page 100
    • Is your writing wordy and rambly? Try these two new products and you may discover that you can be a better, faster writer than you think!1988, U-M Computing News, volume 3, page 71

Forms of rambly

comparativemore rambly
superlativemost rambly

Origin of rambly

From ramble + -y.

Questions about rambly

What does rambly mean?
Rambly means tending to ramble, to wander aimlessly or to make meandering digressions.
What part of speech is rambly?
Rambly is an adjective.

Words near rambly in the dictionary

  1. rambling rose
  2. rambling roses
  3. ramblingly
  4. ramblingness
  5. ramblings
  6. rambly
  7. rambo
  8. Rambo knife
  9. Rambo knives
  10. Ramboesque
  11. rambolt

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rambly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rambly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rambly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.