goldberg

1. 1.

   United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)

   SynonymsRube GoldbergReuben Lucius Goldberg

   Broadercartoonist

Other forms of goldberg

plural

goldbergs·

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 goldberg

What does goldberg mean?

goldberg means "United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)".

How many syllables are in goldberg?

goldberg has 2 syllables: gold-berg. The stress falls on "gold". In IPA it is /ˈɡoʊldbɚɡ/.

What is another word for goldberg?

Close synonyms include Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg. 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 goldberg a common word?

goldberg 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.