A confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically (in psychiatry) as a form of speech indicative of advanced schizophrenia.
（尤指精神病学中的）语词杂拌
Example sentencesExamples
There are strange moments of lucidity and then long fugues of confusion and word salad.
She doesn't do sound-bites; she does word salad - great jumbled streams of consciousness which she tosses, revises and reinterprets.
Okay, now, do you feel: a) needlessly annoyed by a Dadaist word salad; or b) intrigued?
The guests contribute positive balance to our rapper's frantic word salad, but it isn't exactly necessary.
The current classification by pathology puts word salad with word salad, obesity with obesity, and phobia with phobia.
Definition of word salad in US English:
word salad
noun
A confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically (in psychiatry) as a form of speech indicative of advanced schizophrenia.
（尤指精神病学中的）语词杂拌
Example sentencesExamples
She doesn't do sound-bites; she does word salad - great jumbled streams of consciousness which she tosses, revises and reinterprets.
The current classification by pathology puts word salad with word salad, obesity with obesity, and phobia with phobia.
The guests contribute positive balance to our rapper's frantic word salad, but it isn't exactly necessary.
Okay, now, do you feel: a) needlessly annoyed by a Dadaist word salad; or b) intrigued?
There are strange moments of lucidity and then long fugues of confusion and word salad.