Babble Synonyms and Antonyms

băbəl
To talk rapidly, incoherently, or indistinctly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blather
  2. blether
  3. chatter
  4. gabble
  5. gibber
  6. jabber
  7. prate
  8. smatter
  9. prattle
  10. blither
Antonyms:
  1. be-quiet
To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chatter
  2. prattle
  3. blabber
  4. blab
  5. jabber
  6. prate
  7. palaver
  8. talk
  9. gab
  10. tattle
  11. gabble
  12. drivel
  13. clack
  14. chat
  15. run on
  16. blather
  17. murmur
  18. blurt
  19. gossip
  20. burble
  21. rant
  22. coo
  23. rave
  24. gibber
  25. go on
  26. twaddle
  27. rattle
  28. gurgle
  29. yak
  30. talk incoherently
  31. rattle (on)
  32. talk nonsense
  33. talk foolishly
  34. mouth
  35. chitchat
  36. gush
  37. maunder
  38. ramble on
  39. blah
  40. blat
  41. patter
  42. spill-the-beans
  43. ripple
  44. sputter
  45. let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag
  46. gibberish
  47. beat one's gums
  48. run-off-at-the-mouth
  49. talk off the top of one's head
  50. spiel
  51. shoot-the-breeze
  52. murmuring
  53. guggle
  54. mutter
  55. clatter
  56. nonsense
  57. gas
  58. natter
  59. prat
  60. jaw
  61. purl. talk
  62. say
  63. speak
  64. peach
  65. sing
  66. bubble
  67. babble out
  68. blab out
Incessant and usually inconsequential talk
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. chatter
  2. jabber
  3. palaver
  4. prattle
  5. twaddle
  6. blab
  7. blabber
  8. chat
  9. babblement
  10. chitchat
  11. gabble
  12. galimatias
  13. babbling
  14. gibberish
  15. prate
  16. harangue
  17. jargon
  18. small talk
  19. murmur
  20. gab
  21. prating
  22. gas
  23. yak
  24. purl
  25. blah-blah
  26. stultiloquence
  27. talk
  28. chitter-chatter
  29. lallation
  30. prittle-prattle
  31. talkee-talkee
Antonyms:
  1. sense
  2. wisdom
  3. quiet

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  • At this age babies should coo and babble.

  • Everything else read and sounded like meaningless babble to them.

  • Most retarded children babble during the first year and develop their first words within a normal time span, but are then slow to develop sentences or a varied vocabulary.

  • Deaf children born to signing parents begin to "babble" in sign at the same point in infancy that hearing infants babble speech, and proceed from there to learn a fully expressive language.

  • Sunday was eight hours of listening to Vinnie's uninformative babble, followed by a TV ball game, a couple or three beers and a steak.

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