gibberish

gibberish

noun

Definition of GIBBERISH

1

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

Synonyms abracadabra, babble, blabber, burble, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, gabble, gibber, jabber, jabberwocky, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, prattle, slobber

Related Words blah (also blah-blah), hocus-pocus, hokeypokey, twaddle; chatter, gab, patter, prate, tattle, twitter; cackle, clack, clatter

2

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>

Synonyms bafflegab, double-talk, gobbledygook (also gobbledegook), rigmarole (also rigamarole), song and dance

Related Words bureaucratese, computerese, educationese, governmentese, legalese, Pentagonese, psychobabble, technobabble; bombast, fustian, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, hype, oratory, rhetoric, wind