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/ˈpɹætəl/ · verb
(ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble..
And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.
I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.
Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
[...] if you fatigue people by haying them always present, if you encourage or repeat their prattle and their sports; [...]
Use prattle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prattle means (ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble..
Common synonyms include babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber.
Possible antonyms include orate, pontificate, speechify.
And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.
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