prattle | Definition of prattle

prattle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of prattle

1 to engage in casual or rambling conversation

spent an hour on the phone prattling on about nothing in particular

Synonyms of prattle

babble, blab, cackle, chaffer [British], chat, chatter, chin [slang], converse, gab, gabble, gas, jabber, jaw, kibitz (also kibbitz), natter, palaver, patter, prate, rap, rattle, run on, schmooze (or shmooze), talk, twitter, visit

Words Related to prattle

descant, discuss, expatiate

yak (also yack), yammer, yap

Phrases Synonymous with prattle

blow smoke, chew the fat (also chew the rag), shoot the breeze, talk a blue streak

2 to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly

stop prattling and calmly tell us the news

Synonyms of prattle

babble, bumble, chat, chatter, drivel, drool, gabble, gibber, jabber, sputter

Words Related to prattle

blabber, blather, bleat, blither, gab, jangle, jaw, patter, prate, rattle, run on, smatter, tittle-tattle, troll, yak (also yack)

chunter [British], maunder, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter

stammer, stutter

screech, shout, shriek

Near Antonyms of prattle

articulate, enunciate, pronounce