galimatias
/ˌɡæləˈmeɪʃi.əs/
galimatias noun: nonsense, gobbledygook.
Noun
galimatias (uncountable)
- Nonsense, gobbledygook.
- […] and the old lady listened in silence, solemnly, rather coldly, as if she thought such talk a good deal of a galimatias: she belonged to the old-fashioned school and held that a young lady was sufficiently catalogued when it was said that she had a dazzling complexion or the finest eyes in the...1888, Henry James, chapter 5, in The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.
- Synonyms:
- absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil
- A confused mixture; hodgepodge.
- Synonyms:
- bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, salad, anthology, gallery, gatherum
galimatias meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
galimatias in Tamil
- புரியாத பேச்சு
galimatias in Urdu
- الا بلا, بکواس
galimatias in Bengali
- অর্থহীন, গোলমেলে বক্তব্য
Synonyms of galimatias
- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- bafflegab
- balderdash
- balls
- baloney
- Bandini
- baragouin
- batcrap
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Origin of galimatias
Borrowed from French galimatias, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.
Questions about galimatias
- What does galimatias mean?
- Galimatias means nonsense, gobbledygook.
- What is galimatias in Tamil?
- Galimatias in Tamil is புரியாத பேச்சு. See Galimatias meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is galimatias?
- Galimatias is a noun.
- How do you pronounce galimatias?
- Galimatias is pronounced /ˌɡæləˈmeɪʃi.əs/.
Words near galimatias in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: galimatias (page history and authors); galimatias (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); galimatias (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); galimatias (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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