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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To mix in a confused way; throw together carelessly: jumble socks in a heap.
  2. v. To muddle; confuse: The rapid-fire questioning jumbled the witness's thoughts.
  3. v. To be mixed in a confused way: dividers to keep the files from jumbling.
  4. n. A confused or disordered mass: a jumble of paper scraps.
  5. n. A disordered state; a muddle: receipts in a jumble.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: often followed by together or up.
  2. To stir up; arouse.
  3. To meet or come together confusedly or promiscuously; be mixed up.
  4. To act or work confusedly; stumble along; flounder.
  5. n. A confused mixture, mass, or collection; a state of disorder or confusion.
  6. n. A thin crisp cake, composed of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs, flavored with lemon-peel or sweet almonds. Synonyms Farrago, Medley, etc. See mixture.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To mix or confuse.
  2. n. A mixture of unrelated things.
  3. n. UK Items for a rummage sale.
  4. n. archaic A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.
  2. v. To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
  3. n. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order.
  4. n. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. assemble without order or sense
  2. n. a confused multitude of things
  3. n. a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
  4. v. be all mixed up or jumbled together
  5. v. bring into random order
  6. n. small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I read things into the words, decoded them like a word jumble in the Sunday funnies.”

    Simon & Schuster: Vivian Rising

  • “I climbed over them to sit and type on the bed, in jumble sale exile.”

    It Gets Worse « Tales from the Reading Room

  • “On the surface it might appear to be any other word-jumble from the subset of Japanese gaming that only two small handfuls of obsessive sub-culture fans in the West can appreciate, but again, let me assure you this is different.”

    Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing

  • “In the midst of this societal jumble is Albert Fish, serial killer and cannibal.”

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. John Borowski.

  • “Miranda Goode have found that test subjects who are reminded of money prior to engaging in a word jumble descrambling exercise exhibit more self-sufficienct orientation compared to control subjects to whom neutral language is read prior to the exercise.”

    The Brain, Money, and Law & Economics

  • “They didn't know what to do with the word jumble and neither did 1.”

    Cat & Mouse

  • “It's easy to foresee a scenario where paranoid Texas or USC supporters raise similar concerns if their team winds up in a late-season national title jumble that includes an SEC power.”

    CNN.com

  • “The Perfect Place Contest requires players to earn the highest score on a skill-based, puzzle-based online game, similar to the word jumble games in the newspaper.”

    Press Release

  • “Unlike other home-giveaways where contestants are required to write lengthy and subjective essays, The Perfect Place Contest requires players to earn the highest score on a skill-based, puzzle-based online game, similar to the word jumble games in the newspaper.”

    Press Release

  • “Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, meanwhile, have a trickier path, as in figuring out how the BCS will play out looks like a word jumble next to the crossword when figuring out how the Big 12”

    FanHouse

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. confus
  1. confusion
  1. hodgepodge

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. theory
  1. be
  1. cake

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. assortment
  2. maze
  3. medley
  4. assemblage
  1. welter
  2. pile
  3. tangle
  4. mess
  1. clutter
  2. farrago
  3. chaos
  4. muddle
  1. tumble
  2. array
  3. collection
  4. coincidence
  1. avalanche
  2. conglomeration
  3. huddle
  4. bundle
  1. lump
  2. cluster
  3. fragment
  4. profusion

rhymes (12)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Trumbull
  2. bumble
  1. crumble
  2. fumble
  1. grumble
  2. humble
  1. mumble
  2. rumble
  1. stumble
  2. tumble
  1. umbel
  2. umble

reverse dictionary (53)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. rummage
  2. muddle
  3. jumbal
  4. mixture
  5. jumby-bead
  6. jequirity
  7. macaronic
  8. lurry
  9. jargogle
  10. jumber
  1. jumper
  2. embroil
  3. mingle
  4. mingle-mangle
  5. confuse
  6. wuzzle
  7. bejumble
  8. mix
  9. bumble
  10. clutter
  1. gallimaufry
  2. balderdash
  3. patchwork
  4. din
  5. nonsensical
  6. unscramble
  7. word salad
  8. shambles
  9. roggle
  10. chaos
  1. pi
  2. tease
  3. welter
  4. hash
  5. mess
  6. shuffle
  7. jumble
  8. jungle
  9. hodgepodge
  10. medley
  1. mess-up
  2. mishmash
  3. raff
  4. confusion
  5. discompose
  6. disorder
  7. fumble
  8. hotchpotch
  9. huddle
  10. mash
  1. ravel
  2. rhapsody
  3. riot

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