Word Meanings - JARGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.
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- DISCORDABLE
That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell. - CLAMOROUS
Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, - JARGON
Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson. - HUBBUB
A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay. - CLANGOR
A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden. - DISCORDOUS
Full of discord. - DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor. - DISCORDANT
discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. - JARGONELLE
A variety of pear which ripens early. - CONFUSION
1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc - DISCORD
Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is - JARGONIC
Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon. - CLANGOROUS
Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound. - JARGONIST
One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay. - CLANG
To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior. - CLANGOUS
Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. - BABEL
1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9. 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices - CLAMORER
One who clamors. - CLAMOR
1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak. 2. Any loud and continued noise. Addison. 3. A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay. Syn. -- Outcry; exclamation; - DISCORDFUL
Full of discord; contentious. "His discordful dame." Spenser. - INCONFUSION
Freedom from confusion; distinctness. Bacon.