Synonyms for chit-chat
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
gossip, chat, chatter, natter, prattle, confab, visit, chew the fat informal, jaw, prate, chaffer, confabulate, babble, blather, palaver, twaddle, waffle, shoot the breeze slang US
Noun
1. Small talk
small talk, gab, tittle-tattle, chin wag, causerie, gabfest slang US
Other
claver UK
Definitions
- v. 1
To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.
- n. 1
Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
Related words
- Other spellings
- chit chat chitchat
Forms
- Plural
- chit-chats → gabs, tittle-tattles, causeries, gabfests…
- Past participle
- chit-chatted
e.g. chit-chatted → gossiped, chatted, chattered, nattered…
Example sentences
- chat Ziri and Rima continued to chat about their lives.
- chatter She finds comfort in silence rather than chatter.
By length
- 3 letters
- jaw1, gab1
- 4 letters
- chat1
- 5 letters
- visit2, prate
- 6 letters
- gossip2, waffle2, babble2, natter2, confab, claver
- 7 letters
- chatter2, prattle2, blather2, palaver, twaddle2, chaffer, gabfest
- 8 letters
- causerie
- 11 letters
- confabulate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (visit2 = 2 syllables).