Foreign and Garbled

Foreign

Foreign adjective - Being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own.

Garbled and foreign are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Garbled" instead an adjective "Foreign".

Nearby Word: foreigner

Garbled

Garbled adjective - Lacking orderly continuity.

Foreign and garbled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foreign" instead an adjective "Garbled".

Nearby Word: garbling

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Ragnar Lodbrok and His Sons The real reason for the epithet is probably that it's a garbled form of a foreign nickname — maybe Old English leódbroga, 'the people's terror' (that's more like it!).
  • Comically Missing the Point: In Athens, some people receive a garbled account of Paul's preaching and mistakenly gather he is talking about two foreign gods: "Jesus" and "Resurrection"!
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