'Jumble' definitions:
Definition of 'jumble'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie [syn: jumble, jumbal]
noun
A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas [syn: patchwork, hodgepodge, jumble]
verb
Be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled" [syn: jumble, mingle]
verb
Assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence" [syn: jumble, confuse, mix up]
verb
Bring into random order [syn: scramble, jumble, throw together]
Definition of 'Jumble'
From: GCIDE
- Jumble \Jum"ble\, v. i. To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Jumble'
From: GCIDE
- Jumble \Jum"ble\, n.
- 1. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. [Also spelled jumbal.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Jumble'
From: GCIDE
- Jumble \Jum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jumbling.] [Prob. fr. jump, i. e., to make to jump, or shake.] To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up. [1913 Webster]
- Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together? --Burton. [1913 Webster]
- Every clime and age Jumbled together. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jumble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admix,
- Aesopian language,
- all sorts,
- alloy,
- amalgamate,
- angel cake,
- angel food cake,
- argot,
- arsy-varsiness,
- assemblage,
- assortment,
- babble,
- Babel,
- baked Alaska,
- ball up,
- befuddlement,
- bemingle,
- bewilderment,
- blend,
- blur,
- blur distinctions,
- bollix up,
- Boston cream pie,
- bother,
- botheration,
- broad spectrum,
- cake,
- cant,
- chaos,
- cheesecake,
- chocolate cake,
- cipher,
- cloud,
- clutter,
- coalesce,
- code,
- coffee cake,
- combine,
- commingle,
- commix,
- complicate,
- compose,
- compound,
- concoct,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- conglomerate,
- conglomeration,
- cryptogram,
- cupcake,
- daze,
- deform,
- derange,
- disarrange,
- disarray,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcertion,
- dishevel,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorientation,
- distort,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- double Dutch,
- embarrassment,
- emulsify,
- entangle,
- farrago,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fog up,
- foul up,
- frenzy,
- fruitcake,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fumble,
- fuse,
- gallimaufry,
- garble,
- genoise,
- gibberish,
- gift of tongues,
- gingerbread,
- glossolalia,
- gobbledygook,
- Greek,
- hash,
- haze,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hodgepodge,
- homogenize,
- honey cake,
- hotchpot,
- hotchpotch,
- hysteron proteron,
- immingle,
- immix,
- integrate,
- interblend,
- interlace,
- interlard,
- intermingle,
- intermix,
- intertwine,
- interweave,
- jargon,
- jelly roll,
- jumble together,
- jungle,
- knead,
- knock galley-west,
- layer cake,
- litter,
- magpie,
- make unintelligible,
- marble cake,
- mash,
- maze,
- medley,
- melange,
- merge,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mingle,
- mingle-mangle,
- miscellany,
- mishmash,
- mist,
- mix,
- mix up,
- mixed bag,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- muss up,
- mystify,
- noise,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- odds and ends,
- olio,
- olla podrida,
- omnium-gatherum,
- overlook distinctions,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- patchwork,
- perplexity,
- perturb,
- perturbation,
- pi,
- play hob with,
- pother,
- potpourri,
- pound cake,
- pucker,
- riffle,
- ruffle,
- rummage,
- salad,
- salmagundi,
- sauce,
- savarin,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- secret language,
- shadow,
- shortcake,
- shuffle,
- slang,
- snafu,
- snarl up,
- spice cake,
- sponge cake,
- stew,
- stir up,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- syncretize,
- tangle,
- tea cake,
- throw together,
- tizzy,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- toss together,
- tumble,
- turmoil,
- unform,
- unholy mess,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- unshape,
- upset,
- welter,
- what you will,
- white cake,
- work,
- yellow cake