Synonyms of jabber

jabber 1 of 2

noun

as in babble

unintelligible or meaningless talk

to me the baby's speech was simply jabber, but his mother claimed to know exactly what he was saying

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

jabber

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verb

ˈja-bər 

1

as in to chat

to engage in casual or rambling conversation

please do not jabber during the rabbi's sermon

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chat
• talk
• converse
• chatter
• babble
• rattle
• prattle
• prate
• gabble
• gab
• blab
• natter
• kibitz
• schmooze
• cackle
• jaw
• patter
• rap
• discuss
• palaver
• twitter
• gossip
• run on
• chin
• visit
• gas
• blow smoke
• chaffer
• chew the fat
• shoot the breeze
• talk a blue streak
• tattle
• expatiate
• yap
• yammer
• yak
• descant

2

as in to chatter

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly

monkeys jabbering at each other in their cages

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• articulate
• pronounce
• enunciate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of jabber

Noun

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

Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties. — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024

Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023

That includes many of his new Florida State teammates who have discovered the defensive end’s propensity for jabber. — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022

Ohio State strength coach Mickey Marotti is getting in on the jibber jabber with some Michigan staffers in this clip. — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2021

To paint like that required a meditative focus that was miles from my own internal jabber. — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2021

An older Black man perpetually annoyed by Sterling and Blair's jabber — particularly about the ups and downs of their romances — Bowser only takes on the underage twins as his protégés because the premise of the show demands it. — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2020

Verb

Barely over a week ago the artist sat for a public talk, jabbering with fellow painter Dana Schutz. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Feb. 2026

In the customs line, a knot of United interns jabbered about their plans to stay up all night and catch the flight back to Newark the following morning. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2025

In an eventual 57-point Hurricanes victory, Stevenson was balling and jabbering about it, too, to every Wildcats pass catcher within earshot. — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025

The first half hour is filled with the weirdly neutral techno jargon of soldiers jabbering code words into their headphones to what I (as a know-nothing) am tempted to call Mission Control. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025

Sometimes the most confident and extroverted C-suite representatives turn to jabbering wrecks when a camera is placed in front of them. — Nikos Lemanis, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025

In our few minutes, Smoltz indulged a couple of jabbering old sports writers. — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024