Synonyms of gossips

gossips 1 of 2

noun

plural of gossip

as in gossipers

a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others

because her friend was such a compulsive gossip, she couldn't help but wonder if her private life wasn't also being made the talk of the town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gossipers
• informants
• informers
• gossipmongers
• circulators
• newsmongers
• quidnuncs
• tale-tellers
• yentas
• tattlers
• telltales
• tattletales
• stool pigeons
• squealers
• scandalmongers
• talebearers
• blabbermouths
• betrayers
• libelers
• snitchers

gossips

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of gossip

as in talks

to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature

a neighbor who loves to gossip with others about that couple's loud arguments

Synonyms & Similar Words

• talks
• dishes
• tattles
• blabs
• rumors
• tells
• wags
• spills the beans
• reveals
• divulges
• hints
• reports
• implies
• circulates
• intimates
• discloses
• blabbers
• informs
• spills
• tips (off)
• confides
• suggests
• noises (about or abroad)
• insinuates
• squeals
• babbles
• snitches
• lets on
• bandies (about)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shuts up
• clams up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gossips

Noun

Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 July 2026

Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026

The piece contends that while rumors circulated among political gossips and online, these remained unsubstantiated whispers that did not meet journalism’s evidentiary threshold for publication. — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

Local gossips claimed that Chin Ming Tai paid Moy Sing a bride price of $20,000, an astronomical sum for the time. — Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026

The gossips leak letters indicating the family’s ruthlessness. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026

Hometown gossips and lonely girls to the front. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026

Internet gossips are increasingly spreading unfounded rumors that the couple is in distress. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025

In between bickering with Rodgers and pining for a young would-be protégé named Elizabeth, played by Margaret Qualley, Hart gossips to the bartender—Eddie, portrayed by Bobby Cannavale—and begs him for just one more pour. — Kyle McGovern, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

Verb

Mary McCarthy gossips more frankly about people Robert Lowell mentions. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026