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Definition of Jumbled
1. Adjective. In utter disorder. "A disorderly pile of clothes"
Similar to: Untidy
Derivative terms: Disorderliness, Hugger-mugger, Topsy-turvyness
Definition of Jumbled
1. Adjective. In disarray, mixed up. ¹
2. Verb. (past of jumble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jumbled
1. jumble [v] - See also: jumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumbled
Literary usage of Jumbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"It is therefore improbable that a rabble, so jumbled together, will ever be
unanimously guided by one concerted plan, or combine together for its just ..."
2. The Secrets of the Hohenzollerns by Armgaard Karl Graves (1915)
"CHAPTER X jumbled INTERESTS ALTHOUGH the political barometer stood at its lowest
level, there we're still men in Europe who did not believe an outbreak of ..."
3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"The jumbled strifes of creed and creed With endless controversies feed Hie
books—and they sufficed him—•am Cotton's "Montaigne," "The Grave"of Bk- A ..."
4. Old Mortality by Walter Scott (1878)
"... whilk was a great vex; then I behoved to learn about my godfathers and godmothers
to please the auld leddy; and whiles I jumbled them the- ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, Henry Morley (1885)
"Addison's note was a fiction, in which unconnected fragments of his lucubrations
were purposely jumbled together, in as odd a manner as he could, ..."
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