Prattle

Quick meaning: Prattle is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

More Meanings

1. Silly, childish talk; babble.

Example Sentences

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; [...]

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.

Word Forms

• prattles
• prattling
• prattled

Synonyms for prattle

Depending on context, synonyms include babble, blab, blabber, blather, carp, chat.

Antonyms for prattle

Common opposites include orate, pontificate, speechify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chatter, gabble, prate, blabber, tittle-tattle, tattle.

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