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chattering

verb , present participle of chatter

Synonyms and Antonyms of chattering

1 to engage in casual or rambling conversation

chattered idly while waiting in line

Synonyms of chattering

babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering [British], chatting, chinning [slang], conversing, gabbing, gabbling, gassing, jabbering, jawing, kibitzing (also kibbitzing), nattering, palavering, pattering, prating, prattling, rapping, rattling, running on, schmoozing (or shmoozing), talking, twittering, visiting

Words Related to chattering

gossiping, tattling

descanting, discussing, expatiating

yakking (also yacking), yammering, yapping

Phrases Synonymous with chattering

blowing smoke, chewing the fat (also chewing the rag), shooting the breeze, talking a blue streak

2 to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly

the parrot chatters all day

Synonyms of chattering

babbling, bumbling, chatting, driveling (or drivelling), drooling, gabbling, gibbering, jabbering, prattling, sputtering

Words Related to chattering

blabbering, blathering, bleating, blithering, gabbing, jangling, jawing, pattering, prating, rattling, running on, smattering, tittle-tattling, trolling, yakking (also yacking)

chuntering [British], maundering, mouthing, mumbling, murmuring, muttering

stammering, stuttering

screeching, shouting, shrieking

Near Antonyms of chattering

articulating, enunciating, pronouncing

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