Jumbled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jumble \Jum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Jumbling}.] [Prob. fr. jump, i. e., to make to jump, or
     shake.]
     To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without
     order; -- often followed by together or up.
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           Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies
           together?                                --Burton.
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           Every clime and age
           Jumbled together.                        --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jumbled
       adj : in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: {disorderly},
              {higgledy-piggledy}, {hugger-mugger}, {topsy-turvy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "jumbled":
     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