Thesaurus results for NATTER

natter 1 of 2

noun

chiefly British

as in chat

friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this a section of the park in which nannies like to gather for a relaxed natter

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verb

ˈna-tər

as in to chat

to engage in casual or rambling conversation could sit for hours nattering about nothing

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Recent Examples of natter

Noun

George Seaton, the Academy president, natters on about the 50th birthday of film, and the worldwide context of the current films, a tacit dig at TV. —

Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 Ask me for something to watch — and listen to me natter on for much too long, leaping from one title to another. —

Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022 Francis and the driver natter away in unsubtitled Romanian, of which Julie does not understand a word. —

Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022 Instead, Trump natters about video games and mental health — neither of which Congress will do anything about, either. —

Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019

Verb

His Republican lackeys, the same ones who natter on about limited government and deregulation and staying out of businesses’ way, will presumably get onboard with this. —

Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026 But all the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d normally have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first term had to devote at least a little attention to recounting one of the Wu Klux Klan’s more embarrassing moments of 2025. —

Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026 In this perp’s youth, a seemingly nascent case of schizophrenia was exacerbated by habitual LSD use and the yellow nattering Thronglets, which convinced him that their chirping contains a cryptic, apocalyptic message. —

Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025 If this accretion of celebrations of her Adria-ness seemed, individually, like nattering reminders of her time running short, the sheer mass of want for her presence pleased her. —

Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 Its protagonist struggles to raise a mutant creature while also dealing with nattering in-laws and a mundane job. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025 Its members have nattered on endlessly about their responsibility to safeguard the taxpayers’ money. —

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024 Despite some advance nattering about how the absence of a traditional SEC or Big Ten powerhouse in the College Football Playoff National Championship would sink ESPN’s ratings, Monday night’s dustup between Miami and Indiana put up the biggest TV numbers in 11 years. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019 Just like pretty much every other tech outlet, IEEE Spectrum has been nattering on for a while now about the coming Internet of Things (IoT). —

Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2015

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Noun

The list of third-party sites and services the MCI tool is tracking was widely circulated internally and discussed on chat boards after a member of the Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, sent a memo intended to assuage concerns about worker surveillance and privacy.

— Lora Kolodny,Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
User panic remains On Signal’s thread, however, users debated whether the update was sufficient, with some urging that best practice is likely still to disable message previews entirely to limit device access to sensitive chats.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026