scrambly adjective2 •Involving a certain amount of climbing.You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path. — 1999 •(informal) scrambled, mixed-up, unclear, garbledIt is possible, in this scrambly way, not only to see colours, but almost to smell them, too. — 1999 formsmore scrambly · most scrambly