prating 1 of 2

noun

as in prattle

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prating

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verb

present participle of prate
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation the young executive gratingly prated on about his weekend hobnobbing with the rich

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prating
  1. prattle
  2. chatting
  3. babble
  4. talking
  5. yammering
  6. conversing
  7. jawing
  8. chattering
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
  • That morning, Sherron Dudley stopped into Ray Food Market and began chatting with Olivares.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 23 July 2026
  • While chatting with 12-year-old Alex Hill during his hospital visit, Harry discovered the kid was an Aston Villa fan.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 July 2026
Definition of chatting
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
  • Paramount executives are certainly talking a big game in public.
    — Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • James wasn’t talking to any team executives about official business.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Definition of talking
Noun
  • Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of yammering
Verb
  • The series will feature Questlove and three guests playing a variety of games from Uno to Jenga to original Questlove creations, all while conversing about their lives and careers.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 2 July 2026
  • This is because any of various chatbots can induce in us an irresistible sense of our conversing with an actual person.
    — Joel Marks, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
Definition of conversing
Noun
  • Another clip showed Brown jawing toward Sirianni and being held back by his teammates.
    — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The two players had been going at each other throughout the game, with multiple videos capturing the two jawing at each other.
    — Matt Schubert, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of jawing
Verb
  • That’s nothing more than a nonsensical, demonizing political narrative spewed by left-wing politicians and their brethren in the progressive chattering class.
    — Michael Zais, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • Jean’s Beach at the Old Stove Pub The hush-hush purchase of the Old Stove Pub by Max Chodorow had everyone chattering for months.
    — Nancy Kane, Curbed, 25 June 2026
Definition of chattering
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