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word-salad

word-salad is the alternative form of word salad.

Meaning of word salad

Noun

word salad (usually uncountable, plural word salads)

  1. (usually) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
    • All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 120
  2. (usually) Meaningless text generated by a computer.
    • Results will be shown for recognition, prediction, and separation of regular input from word salad (random sequences of words).2003, Bjørnar Tessem, Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: SCAI'03, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 107
  3. (usually) An intentionally nonsensical and voluminous statement.
    • Chris Wallace asked @GovAbbott why he didn't complain about migrant abuse when Trump was President and he launched into word salad, with no real answer.2021, Jeremy Newberger, Twitter

Forms of word-salad

pluralword-salads

Questions about word-salad

What is word-salad the alternative form of?
Word-salad is the alternative form of word salad.

Words near word-salad in the dictionary

  1. word-processed
  2. word-processes
  3. word-processing
  4. word-processor
  5. word-processors
  6. word-salad
  7. word-salads
  8. word-search
  9. word-searches
  10. word-spelling alphabet
  11. word-spelling alphabets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word-salad (page history and authors); word salad (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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