'Garbled' definitions:
Definition of 'garbled'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]
Definition of 'Garbled'
From: GCIDE
- 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 sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf. E. Discern); or perh. rather from Ar. gharb[=a]l, gharbil, sieve.]
- 1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'garbled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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