Thesaurus results for GIBBERISH

gibberish

noun

ˈji-brish

Definition of gibberish

as in nonsense

unintelligible or meaningless talk was so excited he could only talk gibberish

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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 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 And these worlds aren’t even real, just ones and zeros merged to form a network of communication that sometimes feels like incoherent gibberish. — Brandon Kaipo Moningka, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 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 Legal gibberish Let’s start with those last two words. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gibberish

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Noun

No leader should stay as commander in chief after having the mindset to utter such nonsense.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Even much of that seeming nonsense, though, is ostensibly correct.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of nonsense

Noun

And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Companies modelled after Mary Kay that have reprised empowerment babble for their founders’ gain are mentioned but receive scarce judgment.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

Definition of babble

Noun

The conservative justice discussed lawmakers’ efforts to expand the Supreme Court, as well as the violent public rhetoric about the court and its members.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Whoever the next commissioner is needs to crack down on the divisive rhetoric.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 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

Noun

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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