gibberish
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/
:
galimatías
- When he started speaking in gibberish, no one could understand him.
- speak gibberish
- sound like gibberish
She just sees people muttering gibberish at her all day long.
- She just sees people muttering gibberish at her all day long.
- It would sound like gibberish to apply these kinds of verbs to space.
- Now then he says that's all just Euclidean gibberish.
- When I freestyle it's just like gibberish.
- But those thoughts would be a mixture of semi complete sentences and gibberish.
- It only makes sense that if paper mills are already producing gibberish publications, they might as well sell the citations too.
- We can just, we can like hum some gibberish for the verses just to give Mark, our producer, an idea of how to like build the song.
- So it comes out gibberish, but you talk and think like America.
- Yeah, well, I one day will probably learn gibberish.
Examples
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You don't actually believe all this fantastic gibberish, do you?
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She just sees people muttering gibberish at her all day long.
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And also like gibberish and sound come before speech.
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So it comes out gibberish, but you talk and think like America.
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And I feel like people just write a lot of gibberish like first or ha ha, OK, cool.
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It was just a bunch of gibberish.
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That's just gibberish.
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The language of the stranger or foreigner is gibberish: they gibber-jabber, they gabble.
Academic text (2017) -
Of course, the language of oracles is gibberish to scientifically minded philosophers.
Academic text (2017) -
Pure flux without stable intelligibility would seem to lead to "flux-gibberish," as I am inclined to call it.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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1.6
Useless or silly information, for example in unwanted emails
21
8.3
Confusing talk that hides the truth or tries to impress people
19
4.4
Soft, happy sounds a baby makes before speaking clearly
13
9.5
Talk that uses confusing psychology words without real meaning
11
8.4
Talk that is foolish and has little meaning
9
9.9
Confusing speech or writing full of technical words that most people cannot understand
8
9.9
Nonsense language that sounds like real speech but has no clear meaning
6
5.7
To say things that are not true or that make no sense
5
3.3
Not having any clear meaning
4
7.9
Fast, unclear talk that is hard to understand
3
8.9
Silly talk or ideas that are not true
3
9.9
Confusing speech or writing that makes no sense
1
9.3
Meaningless words or writing that confuse people
1
9.8
Language that is hard to understand because it uses many difficult words or nonsense
1
6.0
Things people say that are completely untrue or pointless
Unclear, complicated ideas that are hard to understand and not practical
Confusing education words that sound important but mean little
Language you cannot understand at all
Speech or writing that is hard to understand and sounds like nonsense
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gibberish probably comes from the verb gibber, which meant 'to speak quickly and without sense' and is like the common word jabber. So, gibberish refers to speech or writing that sounds fast and meaningless and cannot be understood.