jumble
v.
throw together in a disorderly manner, combine without order; confuse ; be a mess, be a muddle
jumbled
Adjective
1. in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"
(synonym) disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, topsy-turvy
(similar) untidy
jumble
Noun
1. a confused multitude of things
(synonym) clutter, muddle, mare's nest, welter, smother
(hypernym) disorderliness, disorder
(hyponym) rummage
(derivation) scramble, throw together
2. small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
(synonym) jumbal
(hypernym) cake
3. a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
(synonym) patchwork, hodgepodge
(hypernym) theory
(derivation) scramble, throw together
Verb
1. be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled"
(synonym) mingle
(hypernym) be
(derivation) patchwork, hodgepodge
2. assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
(synonym) confuse, mix up
(hypernym) assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
(hyponym) addle, muddle, puddle
(verb-group) confuse, confound
(derivation) clutter, muddle, mare's nest, welter, smother
3. bring into random order
(synonym) scramble, throw together
(hypernym) disorder, disarray
(hyponym) tumble
(derivation) patchwork, hodgepodge
Jumbled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Jumble
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
jumbled
Synonyms and related words:
amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, balled-up, beyond one, blended, bollixed up, bothered, chaotic, combined, complex, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confused, conglomerate, crabbed, cramp, dappled, difficult, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, eclectic, embarrassed, equivocal, fifty-fifty, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fussed, galley-west, garbled, half-and-half, hard, hard to understand, helter-skelter, heterogeneous, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a jumble, in a mess, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, knotty, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed up, mixed-up, motley, mucked up, muddled, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, overtechnical, patchy, perplexed, perturbed, pluralistic, promiscuous, put-out, rattled, ruffled, scattered, scrambled, screwed up, shaken, shook, shuffled, skimble-skamble, snafu, syncretic, thrown together, topsy-turvy, tough, unsettled, upset, upside-down, varied
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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