What does galimatias mean?
Galimatias means Nonsense, gobbledygook..
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/ˌɡæləˈmeɪʃi.əs/ · noun
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 world.
Use galimatias when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Galimatias means Nonsense, gobbledygook..
Common synonyms include absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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 world.
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