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drivel

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of drivel

1 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
  • I'm not going to waste my time reading this drivel.
Synonyms of drivel

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to drivel

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, hocus-pocus
Near Antonyms of drivel

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness

common sense, horse sense, sense

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom
2 unintelligible or meaningless talk
  • My roommate talks in her sleep, but it's just drivel.
Synonyms of drivel

abracadabra, babble, blabber, burble, double-talk, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, prattle
Words Related to drivel

blah (also blah-blah), hocus-pocus, hokeypokey, twaddle

chatter, gab, patter, prate, tattle, twitter

cackle, clack, clatter

drivel

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of drivel

1 to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth
  • The panting dog driveled on my hand.
Synonyms of drivel

dribble, drool, salivate, slaver, slobber
Words Related to drivel

water

expectorate, spit

foam, froth, splutter

sputter
2 to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
  • What's he driveling about now?
Synonyms of drivel

babble, bumble, chat, chatter, drool, gabble, gibber, jabber, prattle, sputter
Words Related to drivel

blabber, blather, bleat, blither, gab, jangle, jaw, patter, prate, rattle, run on, smatter, tittle-tattle, troll, yak (also yack)

maunder, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter

stammer, stutter

screech, shout, shriek
Near Antonyms of drivel

articulate, enunciate, pronounce

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