Synonyms of prate

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verb (1)

ˈprāt 

as in to chat

to engage in casual or rambling conversation

the young executive gratingly prated on about his weekend hobnobbing with the rich

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

prate

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noun (1)

as in tattle

Related Words

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

prating

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noun (2)

as in prattle

Related Words

• prattle
• gabble
• babble
• yammering
• jawing
• jabber
• chatter
• patter
• blab
• gibber
• drivel
• gibberish
• vaunt
• swagger
• egotism
• verbosity
• self-conceit
• self-importance
• windiness
• rhetoric
• pomposity
• turgidity
• bloviation
• oratory
• rhapsody
• wind
• rodomontade
• rant
• magniloquence
• bombast
• braggadocio
• grandiloquence
• brag
• hot air
• bluster
• bull
• gasconade
• fanfaronade
• gas
• cockalorum

prating

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verb (2)

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chatting
• talking
• conversing
• chattering
• prattling
• rattling
• nattering
• babbling
• gabbling
• jabbering
• gabbing
• blabbing
• pattering
• cackling
• discussing
• schmoozing
• jawing
• twittering
• chaffering
• gossiping
• palavering
• kibitzing
• rapping
• visiting
• gassing
• chinning
• blowing smoke
• running on
• talking a blue streak
• shooting the breeze
• tattling
• chewing the fat
• expatiating
• yapping
• yammering
• yakking
• descanting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of prate

Verb

Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines. —Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 July 2004