garbled

1. 1.

   lacking orderly continuity

   “a confused set of instructions”

   “a confused dream about the end of the world”

   “disconnected fragments of a story”

   “scattered thoughts”

   Synonymsconfuseddisconnecteddisjointeddisorderedillogicalscatteredunconnected

   Similarincoherent

Other forms of garbled

comparative

garbledder·

superlative

garbleddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about garbled

What does garbled mean?

garbled means "lacking orderly continuity".

How many syllables are in garbled?

garbled has 2 syllables: gar-bled. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹbəld/.

What is another word for garbled?

Close synonyms include confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garbled a common word?

garbled is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.