BABEL Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

babel

noun

ˈbā-bəl

Definition of babel

as in bedlam

a place of uproar or confusion on opening day the area's newest big-box store was an incredible babel

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as in noise

loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound the babel of wheeling and dealing that can be heard at the stock exchange every day

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Noun

There wasn’t quite as much Phillies bedlam in Georgia on Wednesday.

— Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
But this is preposterous, this is insanity, this is the very essence of bedlam.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of bedlam

Noun

But the only picture mode that comes close to being that bright also has a notably green bias and ramps up the fan noise to a level that almost anyone will consider intolerable.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Communities are fighting data centers over spiking electric bills, soaring electricity and water demand, noise, land use and taxpayer subsidies.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of noise

Noun

Great art can emerge from a garden cottage in Massachusetts or a madhouse in the South of France and find its audience generations later.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Whereas this evening in the Spanish Gothic madhouse of the United Theater, most every song from Melanie’s Hadean pageant is received with near word-perfect communalism.

— Matt Thompson, SPIN, 13 July 2026

Definition of madhouse

Noun

The merger’s gravitational roar in a fraction of second is equivalent to the amount of energy our sun emits in over a billion trillion years.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
Percy Jackson says in one of the clips shown at Lucca, drawing a wild roar from fans assembled at the Teatro Moderno movie theatre.

— John Bleasdale, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of roar

Noun

Such is the case with FL Sea Lion Encounters, the nonprofit affiliate of the traveling circus sideshow Sea Lion Splash.

— Valerie Greene, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
For years, Lakers basketball was the LeBron show, complete with all the celebrity drama, roster turnover, and constant circus that came with it.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of circus

Noun

His favorite technique was to take a fold-up chair in the woods, get in a blowdown, rattle antlers during the rut, and wait for a trophy buck to come along.

— Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Her first hit item was a baby rattle shaped like a chicken drumstick that was sold wrapped in cellophane, much like a meat-counter purchase.

— Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of rattle

Noun

The $120 whole chicken sparked plenty of online chatter, though the $65 half-chicken is substantial enough for a party of four.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
There has been chatter about teams tanking to avoid being elevated to the Open Division.

— Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of chatter

Noun

Rivera and Hernández, each speaking over the din of his own taquería, offered fundamentally different accounts of how El Califa first rose to international prominence, who deserved the credit and what gives a taco its star quality.

— Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026
As father to both a toddler and an infant, the din of tearful wailing — theirs, not mine (usually) — is the soundtrack to approximately half of all car journeys.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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