Thesaurus:chatter

Thesaurus

chatter

English

Noun

Sense: meaningless talk

Synonyms

• babble
• bavardage
• bibble-babble
• blab
• blabber
• blabbing
• blather
• blathering
• chatter
• chinwag
• chit-chat
• claver (British dialect)
• clepe (British dialect)
• gabble
• hot air
• janglery (obsolete)
• mardle (British dialect)
• natter
• palaver
• prate
• prattle    [⇒ thesaurus]
• scuttlebutt (originally US, nautical slang)
• small talk
• tattle    [⇒ thesaurus]
• twaddle
• waffle
• yackety-yak
• yap
• yatter

Hyponyms

• tattle    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• talk    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:prattle (verb)
• Thesaurus:chatterbox (noun, person)
• Thesaurus:talkative (adjective)
• Thesaurus:nonsense (noun)

Further reading

• “584. loquacity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “chatter” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “chatter” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.