jumble
Plural: jumbles
Noun
- a confused multitude of things
- small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
- a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
- A mixture of often unrelated things.
- Items for a rummage sale.
- A rummage sale.
- A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Verb
Verb Forms: jumbled, jumbling, jumbles
- To mix up in a confused or disordered manner.
- be all mixed up or jumbled together
- "His words jumbled"
- assemble without order or sense
- "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
- bring into random order
- To mix or confuse.
- To meet or unite in a confused way.
Examples
- His tiles would always jumble into difficult combinations right before a crucial turn.
- I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English jumbelen, alteration of jumbren, jombren, a variant of jumpren, frequentative of jumpen (“to jump”), equal to jump + -le. More at jumber, jump, jumper.
Synonyms
clutter, confuse, fuddle, hodgepodge, jumbal, mare's nest, mingle, mix up, muddle, patchwork, scramble, smother, throw together, welter
Scrabble Score: 17
jumble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordjumble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jumble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary