garbled
The word “garbled” has 2 syllables: gar-bled
It's pronounced as /ˈɡɑr.bəld/
What is synonym and antonym for garbled?
In the thesaurus, “garbled” has 128 synonyms and 39 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for garbled along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for garbled
- abridged
- aghast
- amazed
- astounded
- at a loss for words
- bashful
- belied
- bent
- bolted
- bowdlerized
- broken
- camouflaged
- censored
- choked up
- clarified
- cleaned
- cleansed
- cleared
- colored
- complicated
- confounded
- confused
- cooked
- crude
- dazed
- decontaminated
- defective
- deficient
- detached
- disguised
- disinfected
- disjointed
- disordered
- dissembled
- distilled
- distorted
- dumbfounded
- dumbstruck
- elutriated
- equivocated
- expurgated
- extracted
- falsified
- fibbed
- filtered
- fined
- fractional
- fragmentary
- fudged
- half-done
- illogical
- immature
- imperfect
- inadequate
- inarticulate
- inchoate
- incoherent
- incohesive
- insufficient
- interrupted
- irrational
- irregular
- jumbled
- lacking
- leached
- lied
- loose
- masked
- meager
- misdescribed
- misinterpreted
- misrelated
- misrepresented
- misspoke
- misstated
- mistook
- mistranslated
- mixed-up
- muddled
- mum
- mute
- mystified
- obscured
- paltered
- part
- partial
- perverted
- prevaricated
- processed
- purged
- purified
- rambling
- rectified
- refined
- rough
- rude
- rudimentary
- sanitized
- screened
- separated
- shocked
- short
- shy
- sieved
- sifted
- silent
- sketchy
- slanted
- speechless
- stammering
- twisted
- unaccomplished
- uncommunicative
- unconsummated
- uncontinuous
- uncoordinated
- under construction
- undeveloped
- undone
- unexecuted
- unintelligible
- unpolished
- veiled
- voiceless
- wandering
- warped
- washed
- whitewashed
Antonyms for garbled
- accomplished
- adequate
- ample
- attached
- begrimed
- besmirched
- clarified
- clouded
- coherent
- complete
- connected
- contaminated
- continuous
- deciphered
- defiled
- dirtied
- dulled
- enough
- explained
- finished
- fouled
- illuminated
- illustrated
- intelligible
- interpreted
- joined
- muddied
- ordered
- perfect
- polluted
- soiled
- spelled out
- sufficient
- sullied
- tainted
- total
- understandable
- united
- whole
Meanings of garbled
- verb
- To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.
- To make false by mutilation or addition.
- To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.
- adjective
- (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled.
Example Sentences
- The radio transmission was so garbled that it was impossible to understand the message.
- His speech became increasingly garbled as he grew more nervous during the presentation.
- The old cassette tape had deteriorated over time, causing the audio to sound garbled.
- Due to the poor phone connection, the conversation sounded garbled and fragmented.
- The instructions were garbled in translation, leading to confusion among the team members.
On this page you'll find 167 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to garbled, such as: abridged, accomplished, adequate, aghast, amazed, ample, astounded.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
fabricated
- a bit thick
- abstract
- ad-libbed
- affected
- allegorical
- amplified
- artificial
- assembled
- assumed
- baseless
- began
- beguiled
- bogus
- bouncing
- built
- bum
- came up with
- caricatural
- carpentered
- chimeric
- chimerical
- coined
- combined
- complete
- completed
- conceived
- concocted
- confected
- constituted
- constructed
- contrived
- counterfeit
- cozened
- crafted
- created
- cultivated
- daydreamed
- deceived
- deceptive
- defamed
- deluded
- designed
- devised
- dissembled
- dissimulated
- distorted
- done
- dreamed
- dreamt
- drummed up
- duped
- embroidered
- envisaged
- envisioned
- equivocated
- erected
- ersatz
- established
- exalted
- excessive
- excogitated
- extemporized
- extravagant
- fabled
- fabulous
- factitious
- faked
- fallacious
- false
- falsified
- famed
- fanciful
- fantasized
- fantastic
- fantastical
- farfetched
- fashioned
- fathered
- faux
- fibbed
- fictional
- fictitious
- fooled
- foreswore
- forged
- formed
- forswore
- foundationless
- founded
- framed
- fraudulent
- fudged
- garbled
- generated
- gratuitous
- groundless
- gulled
- hammered
- hammy
- handcrafted
- hatched
- hewed
- highly colored
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hoaxed
- hoodwinked
- hyperbolic
- idle
- illogical
- imaginary
- imagined
- imitation
- impossible
- improvised
- inaugurated
- industrial
- inflated
- initiated
- innovated
- instituted
- invented
- jerry-built
- kidded
- knocked out
- legendary
- libeled
- libelled
- lied
- machined
- made
- made up
- made-up
- magnified
- make believe
- make-believe
- man-made
- manufactured
- mass-produced
- mechanical
- melodramatic
- mendacious
- minted
- misguided
- misinformed
- misleading
- misled
- misreported
- misrepresented
- misstated
- mock
- molded
- mythic
- mythical
- mythologic
- mythological
- nonnatural
- not genuine
- off-base
- organized
- originated
- out of proportion
- overblown
- overdone
- overestimated
- overkill
- overwrought
- paltered
- perjured
- phony
- pictured
- pieced
- plastic
- prefabricated
- prepared
- preposterous
- pretend
- pretended
- pretentious
- prevaricated
- processed
- produced
- pseudo
- put together
- put up
- raised
- reared
- reassembled
- rebuilt
- reconstructed
- redeveloped
- reedified
- refashioned
- refined
- remade
- remanufactured
- reproduction
- retrofit
- retrofitted
- romanticized
- schmaltzy
- semilegendary
- sensational
- set up
- sham
- shaped
- simulated
- slandered
- snowed
- specious
- spectacular
- spurious
- steep
- storied
- strained
- structured
- stylized
- substitute
- synthetic
- tall
- threw up
- too much
- too-too
- took in
- tooled
- traduced
- tricked
- trumped up
- trumped-up
- uncalled-for
- united
- unjustified
- unnatural
- unproven
- unreal
- unrealistic
- unsubstantiated
- untrue
- untruthful
- unwarranted
- vain
- visioned
- visualized
- without basis
- without foundation
abridged
- abated
- abbreviated
- abrupt
- abstracted
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brief
- broken
- canned
- capsule
- clear
- compact
- compendiary
- compendious
- compressed
- concentrated
- concise
- condensed
- constricted
- contracted
- crisp
- crude
- curt
- curtailed
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- cut-back
- de-escalated
- decreased
- defective
- deficient
- deflated
- digested
- diminished
- diminutive
- docked
- downsized
- dwindled
- economized
- elided
- encapsulated
- ephemeral
- epigrammatic
- epitomized
- expurgated
- fast
- fleeting
- fractional
- fragmentary
- garbled
- half-done
- immature
- imperfect
- impermanent
- in a nutshell
- inadequate
- incoherent
- insufficient
- interpreted
- itsy-bitsy
- lacking
- laconic
- lean
- lessened
- little
- lowered
- made plain
- marrowy
- meager
- meaty
- miniature
- miniaturized
- minute
- moderated
- modified
- momentary
- pared
- part
- partial
- peewee
- pint-sized
- pithy
- pocket-size
- pocket-sized
- portable
- pruned
- recapitulated
- reduced
- retrenched
- rough
- rude
- rudimentary
- scaled-down
- short
- short and sweet
- short-lived
- short-range
- short-term
- shortened
- shortish
- shrank
- shrunk
- sketchy
- slashed
- small
- subtracted
- succinct
- sudden
- summarized
- summary
- summed up
- syncopated
- synoptic
- tabloid
- tapered
- terse
- tiny
- to the point
- transient
- transitory
- trimmed
- truncated
- unaccomplished
- uncomplicated
- unconsummated
- under construction
- undeveloped
- undone
- unexecuted
- unpolished
- wee
falsified
- apocryphal
- belied
- bent
- bowdlerized
- camouflaged
- censored
- challenged
- colored
- complicated
- confounded
- confused
- confuted
- contested
- cooked
- debated
- debunked
- disconfirmed
- discredited
- discussed
- disguised
- disproved
- dissembled
- distorted
- doubted
- equivocated
- fibbed
- fudged
- garbled
- gave the lie to
- lied
- masked
- misdescribed
- misinterpreted
- misrelated
- misrepresented
- misspoke
- misstated
- mistook
- mistranslated
- mistrusted
- mooted
- mystified
- obscured
- overthrew
- overturned
- paltered
- perverted
- prevaricated
- pseudepigraphic
- pseudological
- queried
- questioned
- rebutted
- refuted
- shot down
- slanted
- talked over
- twisted
- veiled
- warped
- whitewashed
warped
- abandoned
- abased
- aberrant
- abnormal
- abused
- accessory
- aching
- adhering
- adulterated
- agee
- aggrieved
- agonized
- all torn up
- amiss
- anfractuous
- angled
- angular
- apparent
- arced
- arched
- arciform
- askew
- aslant
- asymmetric
- asymmetrical
- awry
- bad
- banded
- barred
- base
- bastardized
- battered
- befouled
- begrimed
- belied
- below par
- bent
- biased
- bigoted
- bitter
- blamable
- bleeding
- blemished
- blind
- blocked
- botched
- bottom-of-the-barrel
- bowdlerized
- bowed
- braided
- broken
- bruised
- buckled
- buffeted
- bunched
- burned
- busted up
- camouflaged
- cankered
- casual
- catawampus
- caught
- censored
- chauvinistic
- cheapened
- circuitous
- clinched
- cliquish
- clogged
- clumped
- clustered
- cockeyed
- coiled
- colored
- complicated
- confounded
- confused
- conspiratorial
- contaminated
- contorted
- contused
- cooked
- corrupt
- corrupted
- cosmetic
- cracked
- cramped
- crooked
- crushed
- curled
- cursory
- curved
- curvilinear
- curving
- cut
- cutthroat
- cynical
- damaged
- debased
- debauched
- decadent
- defaced
- defective
- deficient
- defiled
- deformed
- degenerate
- degraded
- demeaned
- demoralized
- denominational
- depraved
- depreciated
- depthless
- descended
- destroyed
- desultory
- deteriorated
- deviant
- deviating
- devious
- devoted
- die-hard
- diluted
- dirtied
- dirty
- dirty-minded
- disapproving
- discriminatory
- disfigured
- disgraced
- disguised
- dishonest
- dishonored
- disjointed
- disposed
- disproportional
- disproportionate
- dissembled
- dissipated
- dissolute
- distorted
- distressed
- disturbed
- dogmatic
- doubled over
- downgraded
- droll
- drooping
- droopy
- dry
- dud
- eccentric
- empty
- engaged
- entangled
- envious
- equivocated
- errant
- erroneous
- evident
- evil
- exclusive
- exterior
- external
- fallacious
- fallible
- false
- falsified
- fanatic
- far-out
- fast
- fastened
- faulty
- favorably inclined
- few bugs
- fibbed
- filthy
- fixed
- flagitous
- flash
- flawed
- flimsy
- foreign
- frail
- frivolous
- frozen
- fudged
- garbage
- garbled
- general
- glib
- gnarled
- gone to the dogs
- grazed
- grotesque
- grudging
- half-baked
- harmed
- hasty
- hit
- hitched
- hooked
- hostile
- humbled
- humiliated
- humpbacked
- humped
- hunchbacked
- hunched
- hurried
- hurt
- ignorant
- ill-made
- immature
- immoral
- immovable
- impaired
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- in pain
- inaccurate
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- inattentive
- inclinatory
- inclined
- incomplete
- incurving
- indignant
- indirect
- inexact
- influenced
- iniquitous
- injured
- insufficient
- interested
- intertwined
- intolerant
- invalid
- ironic
- irregular
- jackleg
- jaundiced
- jealous
- junk
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- knotted
- knotty
- knurly
- lacerated
- lame
- lascivious
- lashed
- lassoed
- leaky
- lemon
- lessened
- lewd
- libertine
- licentious
- lied
- lightweight
- limited
- limp
- linked
- lodged
- looped
- loose
- lopsided
- low
- maimed
- malformed
- malfunctioning
- mangled
- marred
- masked
- mauled
- mean
- meandering
- meshed
- miffed
- minded
- minus
- miscreant
- misdescribed
- misguided
- misinterpreted
- misproportioned
- misrelated
- misrepresented
- misshaped
- misshapen
- misspoke
- misstated
- mistook
- mistranslated
- misused
- mocking
- monstrous
- mutilated
- mystified
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- nefarious
- nicked
- nodding
- nonsymmetrical
- not straight
- oblique
- obscured
- obstinate
- obstructed
- odd
- off-balance
- offended
- on the surface
- one-dimensional
- one-sided
- opinionated
- opprobrious
- ostensible
- out of order
- out of shape
- outlandish
- outraged
- outre
- outward
- overbalanced
- overzealous
- pained
- paltered
- partial
- partisan
- passing
- patchy
- peculiar
- perfunctory
- peripheral
- perplexed
- perverse
- perverted
- piqued
- poisoned
- polluted
- preconceived
- predisposed
- prejudiced
- prepossessed
- prevaricated
- profaned
- profligate
- prostituted
- put away
- putrid
- quick-fix
- quirky
- rakehell
- rakehelly
- rakish
- rambling
- rank
- reprobate
- resentful
- rotten
- round
- roundabout
- rounded
- rudimentary
- rueful
- ruined
- sad
- sandwiched
- sardonic
- scarred
- schlocky
- scraped
- scratched
- screwed
- screwy
- sectarian
- seeming
- seized
- serpentine
- shallow
- shamed
- shameless
- shoal
- shook
- shot
- sick
- silly
- sinful
- sinuous
- skeptical
- sketchy
- skewed
- skin-deep
- slanted
- slapdash
- slight
- slouchy
- slumped
- small-minded
- smattery
- snagged
- snaky
- snarled
- sore
- spiral
- spiraled
- spiralled
- spiteful
- spliced
- spoiled
- spoilt
- squinched
- squint
- stained
- stiff
- stooped
- strange
- stricken
- struck
- subverted
- suffering
- summary
- surface
- suspicious
- swollen
- sympathetic
- tainted
- tampered-with
- tangled
- tarnished
- tendentious
- tender
- thinned
- tilted
- tilting
- tip of the iceberg
- took down
- top-heavy
- topsy-turvy
- tortile
- tortuous
- tortured
- trammeled
- trivial
- twined
- twisted
- twisting
- two-bit
- ugly
- umbrageous
- unbalanced
- unclean
- unconventional
- uncritical
- undeveloped
- unequal
- unethical
- uneven
- unfair
- unfinished
- unfit
- unfriendly
- unhappy
- unhealthy
- unindifferent
- unjust
- unnatural
- unprincipled
- unreasoning
- unreliable
- unretentive
- unscrupulous
- unshapely
- unsound
- unsteady
- unusual
- unwholesome
- unworkable
- veiled
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- vitiate
- vitiated
- wanton
- watered down
- weak
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- wedged
- weird
- whirled
- whitewashed
- wicked
- wilted
- winded
- winding
- wound
- wounded
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- wrecked
- wrenched
- wrested
- wrong
- wrung
- yellow
- zealous
- zigzag
elutriated
- bolted
- clarified
- cleaned
- cleansed
- cleared
- decontaminated
- disinfected
- distilled
- extracted
- filtered
- fined
- garbled
- leached
- processed
- purged
- purified
- rectified
- refined
- sanitized
- screened
- sieved
- sifted
- washed