garbled

CEFRB2

/ɡˈɑrbəld/

adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Difficult to understand because it is confused or mixed up.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    simple past and past participle of garble

Examples

  • The radio transmission was so garbled that the pilot asked for it again.

  • Many programs leave Japanese text garbled and unreadable.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Confused, distorted, or unclear in meaning or transmission.

  2. difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled

Synonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The phone call was so blank that I couldn't understand a word.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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