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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jumbled
adj : in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: disorderly,
higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, topsy-turvy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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