BLATHERING (ON) Synonyms: 29 Similar Words

blathering (on)

verb

Definition of blathering (on)

present participle of blather (on)

as in going on

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point my attention wandered as she blathered on about her endlessly active social life

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About 4,400 workers are prohibited from going on strike because they are deemed essential to public health and safety.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
And the other film is about a Jordanian farmer and the water loss in Jordan, because there’s a whole political situation going on with water being stolen by Israel.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of going on

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The tight hiding places of Kaitlyn Dever’s rambling house seem almost roomy compared with being stuck in the slimy gut of a sperm whale.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Another user experienced the issue on their Echo Show smart display but was able to stop the assistant from rambling by asking a random question.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of rambling

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Sound quality is also good, with ultra-deep bass rattling your brain on songs that feature it.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of rattling

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The shop does wire in an electrical subsystem to lower the voltage for equipment running on 12-V DC power, including the fridge, lights and fans.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2026
For now, getting Terminus running on your server isn’t as simple as heading to your OS’s Docker app store and downloading a host service.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026

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