garbled
15
7.6
- adjective
- /ˈɡɑːrbəld/
:
confuso
- The phone connection was so poor that all I heard was a garbled message on the line.
- garbled messages
And when you take out some wires, the voices get garbled or stop or whatever.
- And when you take out some wires, the voices get garbled or stop or whatever.
- It's looking at the packets it's getting from the network layer and it's saying, is this packet garbled?
Examples
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The instructions were garbled, making it difficult for the team to complete the project.
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Probably, this comment is more garbled than I intended when I started typing.
Blog text (12) -
Then I realized it was a garbled version of English.
Fiction book (1999) -
Well, just as it started to happen, I realized the face was making a really weird garbled noise.
Fiction book (1996) -
- He said the last message that he received from Captain Sturges was a garbled distress call.
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On one level, it took in those hazy shapes and garbled sounds.
Fiction book (1998) -
I smiled and we told her, in garbled unison, what we were doing there.
Fiction book (1994) -
My point is that a garbled image implies corrupted software, Helene.
Fiction book (2002) -
And when his simple moral messages became uncharacteristically garbled, as during the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan's public standing plummeted.
Academic text (1990) -
The entire Keynesian narrative is a garbled mess of lies, doubletalk, and totalitarian wishful thinking.
Blog text (15)
Synonyms
33
5.5
Long confused speech or writing that is hard to follow
18
1.0
Messy and not in order, with things mixed up
14
4.1
Hard or impossible to read
10
6.0
Not clear or organized, with ideas that jump around
8
8.8
Too hard to read or understand
8
5.5
Hard to read because the writing is messy or the print is faded
7
5.4
Confused and not in clear order so hard to understand
7
4.5
Not arranged in a clear or tidy way
4
5.1
Not in a clear order or logically linked
1
9.1
Very hard to read or understand
1
3.6
Not in order and difficult to understand or use
Having parts or ideas that do not fit together clearly
Hard to read because the writing is small, messy, or strange
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Garbled comes from an old word that meant 'to sift' — Arabic gharbala and Italian garbellare both had the idea of sorting things. Imagine putting words in a sieve and shaking them until they mix and break; that's why garbled now means 'confused or distorted' and hard to understand.