What's the difference between gibberish and unintelligible?

Gibberish


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.
  • (a.) Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (2) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
  • (3) If you followed the remarks as they are written in the official transcript, the president elect was talking gibberish.
  • (4) A committee of MPs last week criticised Uber for creating “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” contracts to ensure that its drivers remained self-employed.
  • (5) "From which dusty basement did they dig out the venomous Stalinist spider who wrote that gibberish?"
  • (6) A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber’s contracts with drivers as “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.
  • (7) That’s why Trump’s 100 days of gibberish aren’t just disorienting and silly – they’re dangerous.
  • (8) His one decent story was sent as a cable in Latin to keep it secret, but the foreign desk assumed it was gibberish and binned it; he was out of town when the biggest story of the war, concerning a mysterious British financier who tried to stymie the Italian advance, broke; and the Mail quickly lost faith in him and told him to return.
  • (9) You think he’s talking gibberish but there are things going on that you need to piece together.
  • (10) Even if we accept this defence, the basic principle of pushing together independent samples, without any population weighting, is a recipe for producing statistical gibberish.
  • (11) Be sure and set your TV closed captioning to gibberish,” read one tweet.
  • (12) The documentary Reel Bad Arabs does an exhaustive analysis of this stereotype, but examples include Eugene Levy in Father of the Bride II (who gets extra points for donning brown-face and talking in gibberish), Spiros Focás in Jewel of the Nile, Richard Romanus in Protocol.
  • (13) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
  • (14) I don't want to sound pernickety, or apply Goveian strictures to the language, hampering its development and fluidity, but if we allow "issues" to swamp it, we'll soon all be talking deathly national curriculum and corporate gibberish and the world will be a much drearier place.
  • (15) Frank Field, chair of the work and pensions select committee that is carrying out an investigation into the so-called gig economy , said: “Quite frankly the Uber contract is gibberish.
  • (16) It perplexed British critics when it toured here last year, not only because it mingled English with Spanish, French and what sounded alarmingly like gibberish, but because it approached this most familiar of tragedies with a disarming lack of reverence.
  • (17) His argument that there are “alternatives” to abortion when a pregnancy is life-threatening is pure gibberish .
  • (18) The speeches, in a mixture of Hausa and the local Tangale, must have sounded like gibberish to her.
  • (19) When Desiigner becomes president in 12 years and changes the lyrics of the Star-Spangled Banner to some mindless gibberish about BMWs, it will be their fault.
  • (20) He has described her as 'wasted, talking gibberish'.

Unintelligible


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PTs' and OTs' self-assessments differed statistically on pairs such as Strong-Weak, Intelligent-Unintelligent, and Aggressive-Passive, with the PTs' mean scores being higher than the OTs'.
  • (2) It was found that ten out of thirteen were written at a level of complexity unintelligible to up to 60% of the general public.
  • (3) A committee of MPs last week criticised Uber for creating “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” contracts to ensure that its drivers remained self-employed.
  • (4) Six patients between the ages of 17 and 32 years presented with unusual sleep-walking epidodes characterized by screaming or unintelligible vocalizations; complex, often violent automatisms; and ambulation.
  • (5) The more complex a system, the more unintelligible and impenetrable is the map of possible side effects.
  • (6) Lew never speaks about himself, and you don't have to be to a graphologist to tell that his loopy, unintelligible signature indicates that he does not want to be known.
  • (7) Spart harangues the ear with gobbledegook intelligible to the splinterists of the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front, but unintelligible to anyone else.
  • (8) You’re articulate, you’re obviously not unintelligent, but you’re in custody at the moment and have [a choice] to accept the [charge] summaries as read today.” Rosie Batty sat in the front row of the gallery and held her head in her hands as she listened to the recording, flanked by a member of her legal team.
  • (9) An auditory and acoustic analysis was performed of the voice production of 24 children between 5 and 8 years of age with unintelligible speech and 24 children without speech or language deficits matched for age.
  • (10) A misarticulation was especially likely to result in unintelligibility on the most difficult passage, although not all unintelligible words on that passage were attributable to phonemic errors.
  • (11) Delayed emergence of intelligibility, or frankly unintelligible speech, often signify the presence of a major disturbance of language, overall cognitive development, or hearing.
  • (12) He classified material likely to affect patients adversely as puzzling or unintelligible, alarming, apparently insulting or objectionable, or sensitive information from or about others.
  • (13) ENWs are unusual episodes of ambulation, with unintelligible speech, screaming, and complex, often violent, behavior that responds to anticonvulsants.
  • (14) Children who could not sustain phonation had speech that was consistently judged unintelligible.
  • (15) Yes, if we do that in an unintelligent way of course you can lose jobs.
  • (16) "When you gather intelligence in such an unintelligent way; if for example you sweep people up who you know are innocent, and it is in these documents; and then mistreat them horribly, you are not going to get reliable intelligence.
  • (17) Noting the number of times – 16 – a reporter was forced to write “unintelligible” in the transcript of Trump’s infamous interview with AP, Meyers was struck that “Trump’s answers are literally just mad libs now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon wished first lady Melania Trump a happy birthday: “She plans to celebrate with her loved ones – and Donald.” The couple planned to celebrate as they always do: “Making sure Donald has something to unwrap too so he doesn’t feel left out.” Fallon also mentioned former presidential candidate Chris Christie giving Trump a B grade on his first 100 days, as well as an A on immigration, and a C on healthcare.
  • (18) The children with unintelligible speech had significantly more signs of abnormal prephonatory tuning and abnormal phonatory modulation than the control children.
  • (19) A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber’s contracts with drivers as “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.
  • (20) It all fits with the 1960s context Capaldi mentioned, but the maze of unintelligible calculations is also reminiscent of Sherlock (the two shows share a showrunner in Moffat).