gobbledygook
9
9.9
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːbəlˌdiˌɡʊk/
- Informal
:
palabrería incomprensible
- During the meeting, his explanation turned into a long string of gobbledygook that confused everyone.
- a bunch of gobbledygook
- a lot of gobbledygook
- just gobbledygook
And it just looks like gobbledygook, but that's your address.
- And it just looks like gobbledygook, but that's your address.
- No offense, but it sounds like some comic gobbledygook.
- I don't know why people bought into Rumsfeld's gobbledygook.
- So we we shoot maybe one line from the script and a bunch of gobbledygook about shoes and Gary goes cut good, let's move on.
- That is, really, and I don't want to belabor it here tonight, gobbledygook.
- We have companies who rely on jargon because it serves them well to say journalists are wrong because gobbledygook.
Examples
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The article goes on, but I will leave it here for it is nothing more than mal-intentioned gobbledygook.
Academic text (2001) -
I read a few pages of it, and it's just a bunch of philosophical gobbledygook.
Blog text (31) -
And that is a big gobbledygook situation.
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But in all of this gobbledygook, let's not forget the kids.
Academic text (1991) -
"It's hard to say what this industrial gobbledygook means, other than the fact that it's really, really complicated to make.
Blog text (19) -
If that sounds like so much politically correct gobbledygook, it's not; it actually makes perfect sense.
Blog text (3) -
And he had reminded me this was just absurd gobbledygook that Hollywood called itself the industry, which ought to be warning enough.
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But Robert S. Banks believes that much TQM language is gobbledygook.
Academic text (1993) -
Paslay: I personally fail to see the relevance of this gobbledygook.
Blog text (23) -
That's a bunch of gobbledygook; it doesn't say anything," Lehrman said.
Blog text (21)
Synonyms
578
2.5
Words or ideas that do not make sense
45
7.2
Speech or writing that does not make sense
43
7.2
Words used by a group or job that others cannot understand
36
7.8
Words and phrases a group uses that people outside it do not understand
21
8.3
Confusing talk that hides the truth or tries to impress people
15
9.9
Silly talk that is not true
13
9.5
Talk that uses confusing psychology words without real meaning
13
8.8
Talk that is not true and tries to trick people
11
8.4
Talk that is foolish and has little meaning
8
9.9
Nonsense language that sounds like real speech but has no clear meaning
5
8.6
Silly, unimportant talk that has no meaning
3
8.9
Silly talk or ideas that are not true
3
9.9
A silly idea or story that is not true
1
9.8
Language that is hard to understand because it uses many difficult words or nonsense
1
9.6
Confusing words from computers and high-tech areas that most people do not understand
1
9.9
Talk that is false and meant to fool or impress people
1
9.9
Formal, complicated language used in official or government papers
1
9.9
Language that uses many informal words people outside a group may not understand
1
6.0
Things people say that are completely untrue or pointless
Complicated words used in universities that make ideas hard to understand
Language full of long hard words used to seem clever
Confusing education words that sound important but mean little
Talk about yoga that uses many words people find hard to understand
Speech or writing that is hard to understand and sounds like nonsense
Unclear, complicated ideas that are hard to understand and not practical
Formal words and phrases used by teachers and schools that are hard for others to understand
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gobbledygook was invented in the 1940s by a US government writer and comes from the English verb gobble (the noisy 'gobble' a turkey makes) plus a silly ending, so it sounds like messy, hard-to-understand talk. That's why gobbledygook means language full of big words and jargon that hides the real idea.