gibberish

noun

ˈji-brish How to pronounce gibberish (audio)
Definition of gibberishnext
1
as in nonsense
unintelligible or meaningless talk was so excited he could only talk gibberish

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2
as in gobbledygook
language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions all I got from the doctor's gibberish was that I had a sore throat, which I already knew

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Recent Examples of gibberish But Bhatta was hypothermic and occasionally babbled gibberish. — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026 Legal gibberish True, some Florida civil rights laws are nearly toothless, thanks to DeSantis and, by extension, Uthmeier. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026 On Saturday Night Live, host Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul McCartney played a couple of gibberish-speaking mechanics who end up taking some naive car owners for a ride. — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026 With its collaborations now stretching to Japan, via Nintendo, a globalization defines Illumination — fitting given the international word salad gibberish of the Minions. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for gibberish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gibberish
  1. nonsense
  2. gobbledygook
  3. babble
  4. rhetoric
  5. prattle
  6. rigmarole
  7. jabber
  8. double-talk
Noun
  • Until recently, that would have sounded like absolute nonsense.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • There weren’t meetings with executives about tone and mood and all this nonsense.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Definition of nonsense
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  • This dumbed-down Goebbels gobbledygook revived talking points that Habermas had tried to quash during the Historikerstreit.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • But at least some of it was gobbledygook.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
Definition of gobbledygook
Noun
  • The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
    — Matthew Razak, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
    — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
Definition of babble
Noun
  • As for Turkey, despite the heated rhetoric from both sides, Israel and Turkey are probably not going to militarily clash or fight a war against each other anytime soon.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Critics say such rhetoric undermines public confidence in election results.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Definition of rhetoric
Noun
  • The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
  • Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of prattle
Noun
  • And the rigmarole of international travel is a very good reason.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Alternatives were mooted, such as filming in England, but flying all the crew from Poland, and their associated visa requirements, would have added to the rigmarole.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Definition of rigmarole
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  • Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025
Definition of jabber
Noun
  • Pat Paulsen, a master of dry wit, delivered droll, double-talk editorials on social issues before mounting a presidential campaign in 1968 with the Straight Talkin’ American Government (STAG) Party.
    — Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • What new form of narrative, what gory amalgam of truth and spectacle, what double-talking rough beast approaches?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2023
Definition of double-talk

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