gobbledegook
Unintelligible official language
Gobbledegook is language so full of jargon, technical terms, or convoluted phrasing that it's meaningless or incomprehensible to ordinary readers: The contract was twenty pages of legal gobbledegook.
The word often criticizes bureaucratic or official writing that obscures rather than communicates.
Also spelled gobbledygook.
Unintelligible speech or writing
- mumbo-jumboMeaningless or confusing language
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- hogwashFoolish or untrue talk
- poppycockFoolish or meaningless talk
claptrap · drivel · twaddle · blather · baloney · bunkum · piffle · tommyrot
Attorneys' technical jargon
- bureaucrateseWordy governmental language
- techspeakComputing industry jargon
- corporatespeakEmpty business jargon
- officialesePompous administrative writing
psychobabble · academese · medicalese · buzzwords · doublespeak · boilerplate · terminology · shoptalk
Impossible to pass through
- unintelligibleImpossible to understand
- incomprehensibleImpossible to understand
- indecipherableImpossible to understand
- opaqueImpassable to light
abstruse · inscrutable · unfathomable · bewildering · baffling · perplexing · cryptic · muddled
gibberish
Unintelligible speech or writing
- mumbo-jumboMeaningless or confusing language
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- hogwashFoolish or untrue talk
poppycock · claptrap · drivel · twaddle · blather · baloney · bunkum · piffle · tommyrot · codswallop
legalese
Attorneys' technical jargon
- bureaucrateseWordy governmental language
- techspeakComputing industry jargon
- corporatespeakEmpty business jargon
officialese · psychobabble · academese · medicalese · buzzwords · doublespeak · boilerplate · terminology · shoptalk · journalese
impenetrable
Impossible to pass through
- unintelligibleImpossible to understand
- incomprehensibleImpossible to understand
- indecipherableImpossible to understand
opaque · abstruse · inscrutable · unfathomable · bewildering · baffling · perplexing · cryptic · muddled · garbled
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, ridiculous, illogical
- language varietiesdialect, idiolect, sociolect, vernacular, accent
gobbledegookplain English
Unadorned, accessible wording
plain language · clarity · clear writing · lucidity · plain talk
gobbledegooksubstance
Physical material with mass
straight talk · plain truth · candor · meat and potatoes · brass tacks