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"