Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk a lot |
| Synonyms: | babble, blab, cackle, chatter, chitchat, clatter, drivel, gab, gibber, gossip, jabber, patter, prate, talk, twaddle, yak, yap |
| Main Entry: | blab |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | babble, betray, blather, blurt out, chatter, disclose, divulge, gab, gabble, give away, go on, jabber, let out, let slip, mouth, peach, prattle, reveal, run off at the mouth, run on, shoot the breeze, spill the beans, spill*, squeal, talk through one's hat, tattle, tell, tell on, yak, yakkety-yak |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, shut up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak fast and non-stop |
| Synonyms: | babble, blab, blather, cackle, chat, chitchat, clack, gab, gabble, gas*, gibber, go on and on, gossip, jabber, jaw, natter, palaver, prate, prattle*, tattle, twaddle, twiddle, yak |
| Antonyms: | drawl |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call out, yell |
| Synonyms: | bark, bawl, bay, bellow, bleat, cackle, call, caw, chatter, cheer, clack, clamor, cluck, coo, croak, crow, ejaculate, exclaim, gabble, growl, grunt, hail, hiss, holler, holler out, hoot, howl, low, meow, moo, nicker, pipe, quack, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, sing out, snarl, squawk, trill, tweet, twitter, vociferate, whinny, whistle, whoop, yawp, yelp |
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk foolishly |
| Synonyms: | babble, blabber, blather, blethe, gab, gabble, prate, prattle, ramble, twaddle, waffle |
| Main Entry: | prattle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, burble, chatter, chit-chat, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, ranting, small talk, tattling, trivial talk, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | rattle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk aimlessly, endlessly |
| Synonyms: | babble, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, gab, gabble, gush, jabber, jaw, list, prate, prattle, reel off, run on, run through, talk a blue streak, talk someone's ear off, yak |
| Main Entry: | rave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk endlessly |
| Synonyms: | babble, be delirious, bloviate, blow one's top, carry on*, come unglued, declaim, flip one's lid, freak out, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, make a to-do, mouth, orate, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar, run amuck, splutter, storm, talk wildly, thunder, wander |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words; inform |
| Synonyms: | articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, sing*, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans, spout, squeak, squeal, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak |
| Antonyms: | listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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