Synonyms of drivel

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noun

1

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

that critic's reviews are nothing but self-important drivel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• garbage
• rubbish
• nuts
• blah
• stupidity
• silliness
• drool
• twaddle
• claptrap
• bunk
• jazz
• muck
• guff
• tosh
• piffle
• trash
• blather
• baloney
• bilge
• balderdash
• foolishness
• absurdity
• blither
• beans
• bunkum
• hokum
• craziness
• hogwash
• poppycock
• malarkey
• tommyrot
• folderol
• codswallop
• insanity
• crock
• hooey
• absurdness
• blatherskite
• punk
• rot
• flapdoodle
• trumpery
• humbuggery
• fudge
• horsefeathers
• madness
• crapola
• bull
• fiddle
• bosh
• fiddle-faddle
• fiddlesticks
• folly
• blarney
• applesauce
• nerts
• humbug
• flannel
• idiocy
• taradiddle
• senselessness
• moonshine
• hoodoo
• inanity
• slush
• hokeypokey
• foolery
• imbecility
• tomfoolery
• kookiness
• asininity
• lunacy
• gas
• fatuity
• rigmarole
• greek
• monkey business
• witlessness
• inaneness
• double-talk
• hot air
• hocus-pocus
• monkeyshine(s)
• hoity-toity
• shenanigan(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• common sense
• sensibleness
• horse sense
• wisdom
• judgment
• reasonability
• discernment
• levelheadedness

2

as in babble

unintelligible or meaningless talk

my roommate talks in her sleep, but it's just drivel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• babble
• prattle
• chatter
• gabble
• jabber
• gibberish
• burble
• gibber
• mumbo jumbo
• twaddle
• blah
• double-talk
• jabberwocky
• slobber
• blabber
• double Dutch
• twitter
• gab
• abracadabra
• clatter
• hocus-pocus
• prate
• tattle
• patter
• clack
• cackle
• hokeypokey

drivel

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verb

ˈdri-vəl 

1

as in to drool

to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth

the panting dog driveled on my hand

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drool
• spit
• dribble
• salivate
• slobber
• water
• slaver
• foam
• froth
• expectorate
• sputter
• splutter

2

as in to chatter

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly

he driveled on about his "distinguished" family for what seemed like hours

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chatter
• chat
• prattle
• babble
• drool
• shout
• gibber
• sputter
• gabble
• jabber
• blather
• rattle
• mutter
• troll
• blabber
• bumble
• mumble
• stutter
• shriek
• prate
• patter
• blither
• yak
• mouth
• smatter
• gab
• run on
• bleat
• screech
• stammer
• jaw
• murmur
• chunter
• tittle-tattle
• jangle
• maunder

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• articulate
• pronounce
• enunciate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of drivel

Noun

While tech executives wax poetic about AI ushering in four-day workweeks and liberation from labor, economics guru Robert Reich is cutting through the drivel. — Joe Wilkins Published Feb 12, Futurism, 12 Feb. 2026

Stop asking the conceptual drivel that any candidate would know. — Nain Abdi, Forbes.com, 3 Feb. 2026

Verb

In the painting Meaningless, 2003, for example, the words meaningless, senseless, and irrelevant eventually give way to blather, blabber, babble, then to drivel and drool, and, finally, to blah-blah-blah. — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025

Gretchen Bender superimposes potent phrases or ideas onto television screens blaring out the usual stream of nonsense, drivel and enticement. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023