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Garbled vs Unintelligible - What's the difference?

garbled | unintelligible |

As adjectives the difference between garbled and unintelligible

is that garbled is (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled while unintelligible is not intelligible; unable to be understood.

As a verb garbled

is past tense of garble.

garbled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (garble)

    • Synonyms

    * confused * disconnected * disjointed * disordered * distorted * illogical * mixed up * scattered * unconnected

    Anagrams

    *

    unintelligible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not intelligible; unable to be understood.

    • Antonyms

    * (l).

    See also

    * (l) * (l) * (l)