garbled adj : lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, unconnected]

English

Adjective

1. (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled

Verb

garbled

1. past of garble

Synonyms

• confused
• disconnected
• disjointed
• disordered
• distorted
• illogical
• mixed up
• scattered
• unconnected

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