What is another word for prattling?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈatlɪŋ] (IPA)

The word "prattling" means talking in a foolish or chattering manner. There are several synonyms for this word, including babbling, blabbering, chattering, gabbing, gossiping, jabbering, patter, prating, rattling, and yammering. Each of these words describes the act of talking excessively or in a disorganized way, often without purpose or aim. Some of these words have more negative connotations than others, but they all essentially mean the same thing. So, whether you're describing someone who talks too much or just trying to spice up your vocabulary, these synonyms for prattling can be useful to keep on hand.

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What are the hypernyms for Prattling?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for prattling?

Prattling refers to the excessive and meaningless chatter or talk, usually in a high-pitched tone. The antonym of prattling is "silence" which means complete absence of sound or noise. Silence is often used to show reverence, respect, or awe. Other antonyms for prattling could include "conciseness" which refers to expressing oneself in a brief but precise way or "eloquence" which is the ability to use language fluently and persuasively. "Listening" also serves as an antonym for prattling, indicating paying attention to other people's opinions and taking things into consideration before drawing conclusions.

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Usage examples for Prattling

The good Squire returned with his prattling charge to his strong-hold; where he had brought her up with a tenderness truly paternal.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The little girl was seated on the dame's knee, prattling in broken language, which her kind nurse in vain endeavoured to understand.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
Juan was then a prattling babe; but even then he gave promise of a princely future.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson

Famous quotes with Prattling

  • As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
    John Adams
  • As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
  • "I you," he said. "I your scent. Long ago, yes, but I never forget. I know your name." "A friend of a friend, perhaps?" I eyed his spear-tip nervously. Unlike Eagle-beak, he didn't wave it about at all. "No... an enemy..." "Terrible when you can't remember something that's right on the tip of your tongue," I observed. " it, though? And you try so hard to recall it, but often as not you can't because some fool's interrupting you, prattling away so you can't concentrate, and-" Bull-head gave a bellow of rage. "Shut up! I almost had it then!"
    Jonathan Stroud
  • I thought that prattling boys and girls Would fill this empty room; That my rich heart would gather flowers From childhood's opening bloom.One child and two green graves are mine, This is God's gift to me; A bleeding, fainting, broken heart— This is my gift to Thee.
    Elizabeth Prentiss
  • You & James Ferdinand simply can't learn to distinguish betwixt intellectual opinion & irrelevant instinctive emotion . . . For instance, he has the idea that I place an exaggerated valuation on the 18th century merely because my chance emotions have given me a strong but irrational sense of belonging to it. I've told that bird dozens of times that I have no especial brief for Georgian days . . . He can't understand my ability to class as merely one period among others an age to which random early impressions have so closely bound my emotions & sense of identity . . . the point is that my own personal mess of subjective emotions has nothing whatever to do with my intellectual opinions. I have freely declared myself at all times (like everybody else in his respective way) a mere product of my background, & do not consider the values of that background as applicable to outsiders. The only way for the individual to achieve any contentment or harmonic relationship to a pattern is to adhere to the background naturally his; & that is what I am doing. Others I urge to adhere to respective backgrounds & traditions, however remote from mine these may be. When I venture now & then to suggest values of a more general kind, I approach the problem in an entirely different way—speaking not as Old Theobald of His Majesty's Rhode-Island Colony, but as the cosmic & impersonal Ec'h-Pi-El, denizen of the invisible world 'Ui-ulh in the second zone of curved space outside angled space . . . If there is any approach to an absolute value in the cosmos—or at least on this planet—then this is it. Sincerity—is-or-isn't-ness—technical perfection—harmony—coherence—consistency—symmetry—all these things are obviously aspects of one single property of space, energy, & general mathematical harmonics whose universality gives it the deepest possible significance. I have thought this all my life, & that is why to me one Newton or Einstein, one M. Atilius Regulus, M. Porcius Cato, or P. Cornelius Scipio, seems to me in certain ways worth a full dozen of your prattling little Keatses & Baudelaires.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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