gibbering
Speaking frantic nonsense
Gibbering describes speech that is rapid, incoherent, and impossible to understand—the verbal output of someone overwhelmed by fear, madness, or confusion.
A gibbering wreck or gibbering idiot has lost the capacity for sensible communication: He was reduced to a gibbering mess after the accident.
The word suggests animalistic vocalization rather than human language.
Incoherent speech
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- drivelSenseless, silly talk
- blatherFoolish, pointless chatter
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
gobbledygook · nonsense · unintelligible · garbled · inarticulate · incomprehensible · rambling · incoherent
Emotional response to threat
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- frightSudden intense fear
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
dread · trepidation · petrified · aghast · trembling · quaking · cowering · startled
babble
Incoherent speech
twaddle · gobbledygook · nonsense · unintelligible · garbled · inarticulate · incomprehensible · rambling · incoherent · meaningless
fear
Emotional response to threat
terror · dread · trepidation · petrified · aghast · trembling · quaking · cowering · startled · shivering
insane
Severely mentally disturbed
- crazedWildly out of control
- derangedMentally disturbed, irrational
- lunaticDeranged or irrational person
manic · psychotic · demented · unhinged · raving · delirious · frenzied · possessed · hallucinating · disturbed
anxious
Troubled by uncertainty
agitated · fidgeting · restless · uneasy · panicky · tense · edgy · flustered · rattled · unnerved
- nonsense talkprattling, blathering, drivel, nonsense, babble
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
- fast talkingmotormouthing, reeling off, firing off, patter
- LovecraftianCthulhu, Necronomicon, Arkham, cosmic horror, Call of Cthulhu
gibberingarticulate
Express clearly, or well-spoken
coherent · lucid · eloquent · intelligible · clear