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/ˈblæðə(ɹ)/ · verb
(intransitive, derogatory) To talk rapidly without making much sense..
“There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.
It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows.
On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.
Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!
[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.
That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;
Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.
Use blather when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Blather means (intransitive, derogatory) To talk rapidly without making much sense..
Common synonyms include blither, babble, bavardage, bibble-babble.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.
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