jargon
Trade-specific language
Jargon is specialized vocabulary used within a particular profession, group, or field—language that insiders understand but outsiders find opaque or confusing: medical jargon, legal jargon, tech jargon.
The word usually carries a negative connotation, implying unnecessarily obscure language that excludes or impresses rather than communicates: Cut the jargon and tell me what's wrong with my car.
Subject-specific vocabulary
- lingoGroup-specific vocabulary
- argotGroup-specific coded speech
- cantSanctimonious insincerity
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
vernacular · slang · shoptalk · techspeak · buzzwords · acronyms · parlance · nomenclature
Unintelligible speech or writing
- gobbledygookPretentious unintelligible language
- mumbo jumboDeliberately confusing language
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- drivelSenseless, silly talk
twaddle · claptrap · blather · babble · double-talk · doublespeak · meaningless · confusing
Attorneys' technical jargon
- heretoforeUntil this point
- thereinIn that place
- aforementionedPreviously mentioned in text
- hereinafterLater in this document
whereas · stipulations · provisions · clauses · above-mentioned · hereunder · notwithstanding · pursuant
Quick, repetitive sounds
- twitteringLight, rapid vocal sounds
- warblingSinging with quavers
- trillingRapid note alternation
- songMusical piece with words
call · chirping · squawking · screeching · cawing
terminology
Subject-specific vocabulary
lexicon · vernacular · slang · shoptalk · techspeak · buzzwords · acronyms · parlance · nomenclature · phraseology
gibberish
Unintelligible speech or writing
- gobbledygookPretentious unintelligible language
- mumbo jumboDeliberately confusing language
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
drivel · twaddle · claptrap · blather · babble · double-talk · doublespeak · meaningless · confusing · incomprehensible
legalese
Attorneys' technical jargon
- heretoforeUntil this point
- thereinIn that place
- aforementionedPreviously mentioned in text
hereinafter · whereas · stipulations · provisions · clauses · above-mentioned · hereunder · notwithstanding · pursuant · whereby
chattering
Quick, repetitive sounds
- twitteringLight, rapid vocal sounds
- warblingSinging with quavers
- trillingRapid note alternation
- vocabularyword, words, new words, term, terms
- slangslang, lingo, argot, cant, vernacular
- jargonlingo, slang, buzz words, legalese, code words
- language typessign language, pidgin, creole, indigenous language, proto-language
- legal vocabularylaw dictionary, legalese, legal language, legal terminology, Latin terms
- Officialesehereby, heretofore, hereunto, whereas, aforementioned
jargonplain language
Easily understood communication
layman's terms · plain English · everyday language · common parlance · plain speech
jargondirect speech
Exact quoted utterance
clarity · plain talk · lucidity · clear writing · perspicuity
jargoneveryday speech
Informal spoken communication
conversation · discourse · street language · speech · colloquial speech
- military jargonArmed forces terminology
- tech jargon
- legal jargon
- technical jargonSpecialized professional terminology
- computer jargonTechnical computing terminology
- internet jargonInformal online vocabulary