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jumble

[ juhm-buhl ]

verb (used with object)

, jum·bled, jum·bling.
  1. to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order:

    You've jumbled up all the cards.

    Antonyms: separate

  2. to confuse mentally; muddle.


verb (used without object)

, jum·bled, jum·bling.
  1. to be mixed together in a disorderly heap or mass.
  2. to meet or come together confusedly.

noun

  1. a mixed or disordered heap or mass:

    a jumble of paper clips, rubber bands, and string.

  2. a confused mixture; medley.
  3. a state of confusion or disorder.

    Synonyms: chaos, muddle, mess, gallimaufry, farrago, hodgepodge

    Antonyms: order

  4. Also jumbal. a small, round, flat cake or cookie with a hole in the middle.

jumble

/ ˈdʒʌmbəl /

verb

  1. to mingle (objects, papers, etc) in a state of disorder
  2. tr; usually passive to remember in a confused form; muddle


noun

  1. a disordered mass, state, etc
  2. articles donated for a jumble sale
  3. Also calledjumbal a small thin cake, usually ring-shaped

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Derived Forms

  • ˈjumbler, noun
  • ˈjumbly, adjective

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Other Words From

  • jumble·ment noun
  • jumbler noun
  • jumbling·ly adverb
  • un·jumbled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of jumble1

1520–30; perhaps blend of joll to bump (now dial.) and tumble

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Word History and Origins

Origin of jumble1

C16: of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

When tested on a jumble of polyethylene, PET and EVOH beads, the solvent washes recovered more than 95 percent of each material — hinting that these solvents could be used to strip plastic components off bulkier items than packaging films.

Sunday afternoon, a jumble of humanity bowled into Burrow’s left leg as he planted it to throw.

While the microscopic deltamethrin crystals in the original spray have a haphazard structure, which looks like a jumble of misaligned flakes, the melted deltamethrin crystals solidified into starburst shapes when they cooled to room temperature.

TikTok, as Wired pointed out last year, is a “brilliant design nightmare”—an endless scroll of 15-second videos that seem to play at random, with hard-to-read fonts, and a jumble of non-intuitive icons.

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In the hot rows, a jumble of multicolored wires crisscrosses in tangled skeins.

A jumble of split screen video, audio snippets, on-site reporting, and commentary cut-aways followed.

He poured heaps of them onto a bed and set about sorting the jumble of tiny vehicles.

They just might get it—a jumble not just of selling points but complementary liabilities.

An “overproduced, overblown, confusingly dark and laboriously ambitious jumble,” ruled Newsday.

It pauses the careening jumble of events to carve out moments of stillness.

Then he will vent upon you a torrent of abuse, ending in some jumble of socialistic ideas of his own concoction.

It can only mislead and mystify and the greater part of the literature is a mere jumble of inaccurate and mystifying statements.

I am writing opposite Lady Hamilton, therefore you will not be surprised at the glorious jumble of this letter.

The jumble of the night had disintegrated most of the formed bodies, and the whole thing had the appearance of a vast dbcle.

The camp was pitched at two hundred and eighty-three miles amidst a jumble of ramps and sastrugi.

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