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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolish talk |
| Synonyms: | Greek, babble, balderdash, blather, bunk, double-talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hooey, jabber, nonsense, poppycock, prating, rot*, rubbish*, tripe, twaddle |
| Antonyms: | sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drool |
| Synonyms: | dribble, salivate, slaver, slobber |
| Main Entry: | babble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trivial talk, often incessant |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, prattle, ranting, tattling |
| Antonyms: | quiet, sense, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
| Synonyms: | absorb, apply, avail oneself of, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, go, go through, have recourse to, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, preoccupy, profit by, put away, put to use, run out of, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, wash up, waste, wear out |
| Antonyms: | accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store |
| Main Entry: | double-talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense communicated |
| Synonyms: | amphibiology, balderdash, baloney, bull*, drivel, equivocation, flimflam, gibberish, jazz, mumbo jumbo, rigmarole |
| Antonyms: | sense, straight talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dribble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trickle |
| Synonyms: | distill, drip, drivel, drizzle, drool, drop, fall in drops, leak, ooze, run, salivate, seep, slaver, slobber, spout, squirt, trill, weep |
| Antonyms: | pour |
| Main Entry: | drool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saliva |
| Synonyms: | drivel, expectoration, salivation, slaver, slobber, spit, spittle |
| Main Entry: | drool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | salivate |
| Synonyms: | dribble, drivel, froth, ooze, run, slabber, slaver, slobber, spit, water, water at the mouth |
| Main Entry: | gibberish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense talk |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash, blah-blah, blather, chatter, claptrap, double talk, drivel, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, prattle, scat, twaddle, yammer |
| Antonyms: | sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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