gibberish
/ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈji-brish ˈji-bə-rish ˈgi-/ (ame, mw)
gibberish — noun
1. speech or writing that sounds like real language but cannot be understood, eithe
speech or writing that sounds like real language but cannot be understood, either because the sounds are not real words or because the message is too confused to follow.
The fever was so high that Mert began muttering gibberish in his sleep.
mutter / talk gibberish (verb + gibberish collocation)
Apinya glanced at the legal contract and complained that the small print was complete gibberish.
complete / total gibberish (intensifier collocation)
When the microphone broke, the speaker's last sentence came out as electronic gibberish.
Toddlers often babble cheerful gibberish for months before they say their first real word.
The encrypted file opened in Notepad as pages of meaningless gibberish.
- nonsense
broader; can mean both meaningless language and silly ideas, while gibberish stresses unintelligible sound or text.
- drivel
stronger contempt; suggests the speaker is foolish, not just unclear.
- jargon
specialist vocabulary that outsiders find incomprehensible; technically meaningful, unlike gibberish.
- babble
continuous rapid speech that lacks clear meaning; often used of babies or excited talk.
- sense
language that carries clear meaning.
文法句型
talk gibberish
speak gibberish
sound like gibberish
用法筆記
Uncountable; never takes a plural or an article like 'a gibberish'. Often paired with intensifiers ('complete', 'total', 'pure') or with verbs of speaking ('talk', 'speak', 'mutter', 'babble'). Can describe both spoken nonsense and unreadable text such as garbled code or jargon-heavy writing.