gobbledygook

Noun

Meaning

incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

greek creole bosh tosh abracadabra jabber Choctaw gammon buncombe bull jabberwocky cant malarkey babble garbage
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Antonyms

meaning reason sense experience idea understanding
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Hypernyms

jargon

Examples

Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction. Tom Baker

Nixon's Oval Office tape from June 14, 1971, showed H. R. Haldeman describing a situation to Nixon as "a bunch of gobbledygook. Source: Internet

The word gibberish is more commonly applied to informal speech, while gobbledygook (sometimes gobbledegook, gobbledigook or gobbledegoo) is more often applied to writing. Source: Internet

I shall now plow forward with some sort of supposed attention-grabbing and deeply entertaining gobbledygook, at this time. Source: Internet

Some poets write gobbledygook by mistake, never a good thing. Source: Internet

The Emanuel administration's explanation for how $55 million wound up paying for Navy Pier renovations sounds like gobbledygook from the presidential administration. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gobble-pipe gobbledegoo gobbledegook gobbler gobblesome gobbling