prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music
(noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)
(ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
Synonym: Thesaurus:prattle
prattle (uncountable)
Silly, childish talk; babble.
Synonyms: Thesaurus:nonsense, Thesaurus:chatter
• Platter, partlet, platter
Source: Wiktionary
Prat"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Prattling.] Etym: [Freq. of prate.]
Definition: To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
Prat"tle, v. t.
Definition: To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason. Addison.
Prat"tle, n.
Definition: Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. Mere prattle, without practice. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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