Word Meanings - JANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, 1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer. 3. To quarrel in words;

Additional info about word: JANGLE

or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, 1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer. 3. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree. Shak. Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner. Carlyle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JANGLE)

• Jargon
• Gibberish
• jangle
• slang
• cant
• lingo
• patois
• confused talk
• Wrangle
• Altercate
• bicker
• brawl
• contend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JANGLE)

• Agree
• accord
• concur

Related words: (words related to JANGLE)

• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• ACCORD
  1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton. 2. To agree in pitch and tone.
• SLANGINESS
  Quality of being slangy.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• JARGON
  A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• JANGLERESS
  A female prater or babbler.
• BRAWLING
  1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
• CONFUSE
  1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
• LINGOT
  A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.
• CONFUSABILITY
  Capability of being confused.
• AGREER
  One who agrees.
• ACCORDMENT
  Agreement; reconcilement. Gower.
• ACCORDING
  Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
• CONCURRING
  Agreeing. Concurring figure , one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• SHAGREEN
  To chagrin.
• DISAGREER
  One who disagrees. Hammond.
• BON-ACCORD
  Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
• BAGREEF
  The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• NOLO CONTENDERE
  A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.