bafflegab
Confusing official language
Bafflegab is deliberately confusing or incomprehensible language, especially the kind produced by bureaucrats, lawyers, or officials.
The word suggests language designed to obscure rather than communicate—jargon-laden prose that sounds impressive but says little: The contract was twenty pages of bafflegab.
Similar to gobbledygook.
Attorneys' technical jargon
- bureaucrateseWordy governmental language
- technobabbleFake scientific-sounding nonsense
- buzzwordsTrendy technical jargon
- shoptalkWork-related conversation
officialese · corporatese · mumbo-jumbo · gibberish · argot · cant · phraseology · boilerplate
Tedious lengthiness in speech
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- verbiageOverabundance of language
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- paddingMaterial for cushioning
bloat · filler · rambling · long-windedness · redundancy · grandiloquence · pomposity · bluster
Concealment through misdirection
- equivocationAmbiguous language avoiding commitment
- misdirectionIntentional focus manipulation
- evasionAct of escaping detection
- stonewallingDeliberately refusing to respond
spin · hedging · deflection · obscurantism · mystification · dissembling · non-answer · runaround
Excessively complex or twisted
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
- byzantineDauntingly intricate and devious
- impenetrableImpossible to pass through
- opaqueImpassable to light
dense · arcane · abstruse · tortuous · knotty · tangled · inscrutable · bewildering
legalese
Attorneys' technical jargon
- bureaucrateseWordy governmental language
- technobabbleFake scientific-sounding nonsense
- buzzwordsTrendy technical jargon
shoptalk · officialese · corporatese · mumbo-jumbo · gibberish · argot · cant · phraseology · boilerplate · acronyms
prolixity
Tedious lengthiness in speech
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- verbiageOverabundance of language
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
padding · bloat · filler · rambling · long-windedness · redundancy · grandiloquence · pomposity · bluster · waffle
smokescreen
Concealment through misdirection
- equivocationAmbiguous language avoiding commitment
- misdirectionIntentional focus manipulation
- evasionAct of escaping detection
stonewalling · spin · hedging · deflection · obscurantism · mystification · dissembling · non-answer · runaround · handwaving
convoluted
Excessively complex or twisted
- labyrinthineExtremely complex and winding
- byzantineDauntingly intricate and devious
- impenetrableImpossible to pass through
opaque · dense · arcane · abstruse · tortuous · knotty · tangled · inscrutable · bewildering · confounding
bafflegabplain speech
Unembellished verbal expression
plain English · clarity · straight talk · plainspokenness · lucidity
bafflegabcandor
Unguarded truthfulness
frankness · forthrightness · transparency · straight shooting · honesty
baffle, gab, baffling, gabble, bafflement, baffles, gobbledygook, bafflingly, doublespeak