GABBLE Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of gabble

as in babble

unintelligible or meaningless talk their discussion about the complexities of international trade was gabble to those of us who didn't study that subject

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verb

ˈga-bəl

as in to chat

to engage in casual or rambling conversation heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night

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as in to chatter

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time

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Recent Examples of gabble

Verb

Perennially delighted and deeply uncool, Tascioni gabbles about the wonders of the city while her interlocutors roll their eyes at her lack of sophistication and taste. — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gabble

Noun

Companies modelled after Mary Kay that have reprised empowerment babble for their founders’ gain are mentioned but receive scarce judgment.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.

— Matthew Razak, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026

Definition of babble

Verb

Service is incredibly attentive and personable; everyone will want to stop and chat throughout the day.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
And in 2023, Tierra Whack and Lil Yachty chatted about hip-hop in Brooklyn, before Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane kept the conversation going.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of chat

Noun

The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of prattle

Verb

Sitting in one of the ship’s myriad bars and talking to strangers is one of the most interesting, and often lovely, things a person can do on board.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Wells' friends said Wells did not return to the mainland with them, choosing instead to stay behind to talk with a girl, a claim his family has disputed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of talk

Verb

But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.

— New York Times, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018

Definition of gibber

Noun

Same goes for Chock Chapple (6), because life’s too short to be typing that nonsense in a search field.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026
What Trump is serving up is precisely the kind of paternalistic nonsense that women have fought against for the past century, now applied to nation states.

— Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of nonsense

Verb

This was already noticed long before the emergence of AI chatbots with the power to converse.

— Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
Users can access dots through OpenAI's ChatGPT platform, Altman said, adding that in the future, people will be able to converse with the agents by phone and text.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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