garbled

garbled
Synonyms and related words:
affected, aimless, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beyond one, biased, bogus, brummagem, butchered, castrated, catachrestic, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited, crabbed, cramp, cut short, designless, difficult, distorted, docked, doctored, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, empty, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, hard, hard to understand, hashed, illegitimate, imitation, importless, inane, inauthentic, insignificant, intricate, jumbled, junky, knotty, lopped, make-believe, man-made, mangled, meaningless, misapprehended, miscited, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misquoted, misread, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, mutilated, nonconnotative, nondenotative, null, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, overtechnical, perplexed, perverted, phatic, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, purportless, purposeless, put-on, quasi, queer, scrambled, self-styled, senseless, sham, shoddy, simulated, slanted, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, strained, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortured, tough, truncated, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unmeaning, unnatural, unreal, unreliable, unsignificant, warped

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • garbled — index imperfect, inaccurate, marred Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • garbled — [[t]gɑ͟ː(r)b(ə)ld[/t]] ADJ GRADED A garbled message or report contains confused or wrong details, often because it is spoken by someone who is nervous or in a hurry. The Coastguard needs to decipher garbled messages in a few minutes. ...his own… …   English dictionary

  • garbled — adjective a garbled statement or report is very unclear and confusing: The papers had some garbled version of the story. | a garbled phone message …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Garbled — Garble Gar ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Garbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Garbling}.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • garbled — gar|bled [ garbld ] adjective confusing or not accurate: a garbled and unconvincing explanation …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • garbled — un·garbled; …   English syllables

  • garbled — UK [ˈɡɑː(r)b(ə)ld] / US [ˈɡɑrb(ə)ld] adjective confusing, or not accurate a garbled and unconvincing explanation …   English dictionary

  • garbled — [ˈgɑːb(ə)ld] adj not correctly organized or explained, and difficult to understand a garbled explanation/message[/ex] …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • garbled — adjective (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled Syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, distorted, illogical, mixed up, scattered, unconnected …   Wiktionary

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