[
US
/ˈdʒəmbəɫd/
]
[ UK /dʒˈʌmbəld/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈʌmbəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
in utter disorder
a disorderly pile of clothes
How To Use jumbled In A Sentence
- Furniture and papers were all jumbled together in disarray.
- This morning I was pawing through my jumbled collection of socks, looking for a match to an olive one I had already plucked from the drawer.
- These words are jumbled up and don't make sense.
- How can I find that letter when all your papers are jumbled up like this?
- Max's even more dismal New York is cast in jumbled patterns of black, white and grey, until Mary sends Max a bright red pom-pom which he wears atop his yarmulke.
- The dark cover designed by art director Carole Otypka has the letters of the magazine's title jumbled along the bottom of the page, instead of the top. The Seattle Times
- When I opened my mouth, a jumbled mess would tumble out. Times, Sunday Times
- My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis. Critical Conditions
- This jumbled exercise by Bulareyaung Pagarlava amounts to a shapeless sampler of miscellaneous moods and shticks, from the cloyingly cute to the utterly arbitrary. A Cautionary Tale in Dance
- And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.