Thesaurus:prattle
English
Verb
Sense: to talk too much; to talk idly
Synonyms
- babble
- bat the breeze (US, idiomatic)
- blab
- blabber
- blather
- carp (obsolete)
- chat [⇒ thesaurus]
- chatter [⇒ thesaurus]
- chew the fat (idiomatic)
- chew the rag (idiomatic)
- chinwag
- chit-chat
- chunner
- clack
- claver (British dialect)
- clepe (British dialect)
- drivel
- jabber
- gabble
- gibber
- go on
- maunder
- natter
- palaver
- piffle
- prate
- prattle
- rabbit (British dialect)
- rabbit on (British dialect)
- ramble
- shoot the breeze (US, idiomatic)
- shoot the bull (idiomatic)
- shoot the shit (idiomatic, slang, vulgar)
- smatter
- tattle [⇒ thesaurus]
- twaddle
- waffle
- wibble (British, Internet slang)
- witter
- yabber
- yack
- yatter
- yap
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- gossip [⇒ thesaurus]
- sperg (vulgar, slang, derogatory)
- talk a blue streak (idiomatic)
- talk a mile a minute (idiomatic)
Hypernyms
See also
- Thesaurus:gossip (verb)
- Thesaurus:chatter (noun)
- Thesaurus:chatterbox (noun, person)
- Thesaurus:talkative (adjective)
Further reading
- “584. loquacity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “prattle” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “prattle” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “prattle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.