Meaning & use
gibberish
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Speech or writing that is unintelligible or meaningless nonsense.
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The toddler babbled gibberish before learning her first real words.
The error message on the screen was complete gibberish to him.
A note on using this word
Gibberish can describe both genuinely meaningless sounds and speech that is technically made of real words but too confusing or jargon-filled to understand.
Words with a similar meaning
nonsensebabble
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