disapproval If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane. The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic. speech or writing that goes on for a long time and does not seem to have any clear organization or purpose
disapproval If you describe a speech or piece of writing as rambling, you are criticizing it for being too long and very confused. His actions were accompanied by a rambling monologue. the activity of going for walks in the countryside for pleasure
(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"