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Word Meanings - JARGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.

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  • DISCORDABLE
    That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
  • CLAMOROUS
    Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
  • JARGON
    Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.
  • HUBBUB
    A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.
  • CLANGOR
    A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.
  • DISCORDOUS
    Full of discord.
  • DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
    State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
  • DISCORDANT
    discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
  • JARGONELLE
    A variety of pear which ripens early.
  • CONFUSION
    1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
  • DISCORD
    Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
  • JARGONIC
    Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
  • CLANGOROUS
    Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
  • JARGONIST
    One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.
  • CLANG
    To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.
  • CLANGOUS
    Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.
  • BABEL
    1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9. 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices
  • CLAMORER
    One who clamors.
  • CLAMOR
    1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak. 2. Any loud and continued noise. Addison. 3. A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay. Syn. -- Outcry; exclamation;
  • DISCORDFUL
    Full of discord; contentious. "His discordful dame." Spenser.
  • INCONFUSION
    Freedom from confusion; distinctness. Bacon.

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