Synonyms for chatter
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Prattle — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
prattle, babble, twaddle, blabber, chit-chat, natter informal, tattle, blab, talk, blather, jabber, nattering, small talk, chatting, hot air, gabble, prate, waffle, claver UK, bibble-babble, bavardage, gibberish
2. Cackle
cackle, yakety-yak, yak slang, yack dated
Verb
1. Gossip
gossip, chat, confab, chew the fat informal, jaw, visit, chaffer informal, confabulate, shoot the breeze slang US
2. Clack
Definitions
- n. 1
Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- n. 2
The sound of talking.
- v. 1
To make a noise by rapid collisions.
He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.
- v. 2
To talk idly.
They knitted and chattered the whole time.
Related words
- Word family
- chatterati chatterbag chatterbot chatterbox chatterer
- Is a kind of
- talk
Choose the right word
The cackle of a hen, the gabble of a goose, the chatter of a magpie, the babble of a running stream, as applied to human speech, indicate a rapid succession of what are to the listener meaningless sounds.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- babble She didn't pay attention to her husband's babble.
- twaddle Personally, I think it's a load of twaddle.
- flutter Ziri heard the soft flutter of a butterfly’s wings.
By length
- 3 letters
- jaw1, yak1
- 4 letters
- talk1, chat1, pink1, blab1, yack1, clep
- 5 letters
- speak1, visit2, click1, grind1, clack1, gnash1, prate
- 6 letters
- gossip2, rattle2, waffle2, jargon2, magpie2, babble2, cackle2, tattle2, jabber, mander2, natter2, confab, piffle, gibber
- 7 letters
- flutter2, clatter2, prattle2, blather2, twaddle2, blabber2, chaffer
- 8 letters
- chatting2, converse2
- 9 letters
- discourse2, gibberish3, nattering3, bavardage
- 11 letters
- confabulate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (visit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- verbiage
- Español
- verborrea
- Deutsch
- Geschwurbel