Word Meanings - RAMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect

Additional info about word: RAMBLE

Etym: 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind Locke. 2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way. 3. To extend or grow at random. Thomson. Syn. -- To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAMBLE)

• Excursion
• Trip
• ramble
• tour
• journey
• jaunt
• Range Rank
• dispose
• class
• place
• order
• collocate
• file
• concatenate
• stroll
• rove
• Roam
• Wander
• range
• stray
• saunter
• Stray
• deviate
• digress
• go astray
• err
• depart
• Tour
• excursion
• turn
• outing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAMBLE)

• Course
• speed
• hasten
• drive
• run
• Disturb
• disconnect
• disorder
• derange
• intermit
• remain
• be stationary

Related words: (words related to RAMBLE)

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  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
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  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
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  The faculty of acquiring wesdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. Piers Plowman.
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  The quality or state of being specific.
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  Disposal. Goodwin.
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  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
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  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
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  To exceed in villainy.
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• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
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  1. To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden. 2. To laugh out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin.
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  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
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  Rarely known; unusual; strange. wondered much at his so selcouth case. Spenser.
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  See SOOTHSAY
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  See SOURKROUT
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  Resembling a beast's snout. The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway.
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  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.