garbled

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

THESAURUS

garbled

affected, aimless, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beyond one, biased, bogus, brummagem, butchered, castrated, catachrestic, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited, crabbed, cramp, cut short, designless, difficult, distorted, docked, doctored, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, empty, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, hard, hard to understand, hashed, illegitimate, imitation, importless, inane, inauthentic, insignificant, intricate, jumbled, junky, knotty, lopped, make-believe, man-made, mangled, meaningless, misapprehended, miscited, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misquoted, misread, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, mutilated, nonconnotative, nondenotative, null, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, overtechnical, perplexed, perverted, phatic, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, purportless, purposeless, put-on, quasi, queer, scrambled, self-styled, senseless, sham, shoddy, simulated, slanted, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, strained, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortured, tough, truncated, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unmeaning, unnatural, unreal, unreliable, unsignificant, warped

ROGET THESAURUS

garbled

Incompleteness

N incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.

Unintelligibility

N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.