Rambling vs Digress - What's the difference?
rambling | digress |
A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
* 1941 , Harold Sinclair, Years of Illusion (page 145)
A gentle hike.
To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
* Holland
* John Locke
* {{quote-song
, year = 1959
, title = In Old Mexico
, composer = (Tom Lehrer)
, passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .)
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To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between rambling and digress
is that rambling is while digress is to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.As a noun rambling
is a long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.rambling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."
Derived terms
* rambling roseAnagrams
*digress
English
Verb
(es)- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
- Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.