garbled
Adjective: 1. Mixed up, confused, or distorted: Refers to information, speech, or a message that has become jumbled, unclear, or inaccurate, often as a result of errors in transmission, memory, or explanation. 2. Lacking orderly continuity: Describes something composed of disconnected or illogical parts, making it difficult to understand or follow.
The adjective "garbled" is used to describe information that is not clear or accurate. It often implies that the original message or data has been corrupted. * It is commonly used with nouns like message, transmission, account, version, story, instructions, data, and speech. * It typically comes before the noun it modifies (e.g., a garbled message) or after a linking verb like be, become, or sound (e.g., The signal was garbled).
- We received a garbled radio transmission from the expedition team.
- His memory of the accident was garbled and full of contradictions.
- The witness gave a garbled account of what she saw, confusing the times and the people involved.
- Due to a poor connection, her voice on the phone sounded faint and garbled.
- "to become garbled": to change from clear to confused or distorted.
- The historical record has become garbled over centuries of retelling.
- "hopelessly garbled": extremely or irredeemably confused.
- The instructions were hopelessly garbled, so we had to figure it out ourselves.
- Garble (verb): To reproduce a message, story, or statement in a confused and distorted way.
- He tends to garble facts when he's nervous.
- Confused: Lacking logical order or sense.
- Jumbled: Mixed up in a disordered mass.
- Distorted: Having the original meaning, shape, or sound twisted out of its true form.
- Incoherent: Expressed in an unclear way that is hard to understand.
- Muddled: Confused in thought; mixed up.
- Clear
- Coherent
- Lucid
- Unambiguous
- Accurate
- lacking orderly continuity
- a confused set of instructions
- a confused dream about the end of the world
- disconnected fragments of a story
- scattered thoughts