GIBBER Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈji-bər

Definition of gibber

as in to babble

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly stop gibbering, and pull yourself together!

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gibber

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noun

as in babble

unintelligible or meaningless talk all I could get from her gibber was that something had exploded

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But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that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, 13 Apr. 2018 Or is Tucker Carlson the exact opposite of a journalist and his broadcast the Platonic ideal of gibbering insanity? — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018 In issue two, Chang wanders around gibbering like a raw-meat lunatic while his skin tries to escape the little girl, who's keeping it as a pet. — Maurice Martin, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2002

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The kids are drawing slowly with chalk and babbling to each other.

— Miranda Rake, Parents, 25 Aug. 2026
The surrounding 23 acres the estate sits on are full of trails ripe for exploring, too, and take visitors past historic stone walls, cemeteries, and babbling brooks.

— Blair West, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of babble

Noun

Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025

Definition of jabber

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

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

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

All three judges are basically drooling over how much pure quickstep content is in this routine despite some framework issues and the mistake at the end.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Toward the end of the film, that kid is grown up and stuck in an incestuous relationship with his mother, while a nearly incapacitated Dau sits drooling nearby.

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of drool

Noun

The beautifully spacious production adds Depeche Mode synth burbles, Phil Spector-style girl-group castanets, and piano frills straight off an Abba record.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026
Out beyond the shore, the sky had turned a wash of pink and gold—a celestial curtainfall soundtracked by the thwack of a snare drum, and the mellifluous burble of yet another pint being poured.

— Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

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