What does prate mean?
Prate means Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity..
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/pɹeɪt/ · noun
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity..
Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
Urania speaks with darken’d brow: ‘Thou pratest here where thou art least; This faith has many a purer priest, And many an abler voice than thou: […]’
They are not so chic, these kids. They don’t haunt press receptions or opening nights; they don’t pose as street punks in the style of Bruce Springsteen, or prate of rock & Rimbaud.
Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family.
Use prate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prate means Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity..
Common synonyms include waffle, babble, blabber, bat the breeze.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.
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