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Gibberish vs Foolish - What's the difference?

gibberish | foolish |

As adjectives the difference between gibberish and foolish

is that gibberish is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless while foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

As a noun gibberish

is speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.

gibberish

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
  • * Hawthorne
    • Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
  • needlessly obscure or overly technical language

    • Synonyms

    * gibber * See also

    See also

    * double Dutch * framis * gobbledygook, gobbledegook * galimatias * jargon * mumbo jumbo * nonsense * rhubarb rhubarb

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless

    • References

    foolish

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
  • :
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
  • :
  • *(Aeschylus)
  • *:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .

    • Synonyms

    * absurd * idiotic * ridiculous * silly * unwise

    Antonyms

    * wise

    Derived terms

    * foolishness