Definition for Palaver:

• pa-lav'[. e]r, n. talk or conversation, esp. idle talk: talk intended to deceive: a public conference: in Africa, a talk with the natives.-- v.i. to use conversation: to flatter: to talk idly.-- n. PALAV'ERER. [ Port. palavra-- L. parabola, a parable.]

Synonyms for Palaver:

• n.

  •
  • discussion,
  • exploration,
  • commentary,
  • inquest,
  • exchange,
  • talks,
  • negotiation.
  •
  • gas,
  • nightmare,
  • small talk,
  • ordeal,
  • quagmire,
  • tragedy,
  • crisis,
  • words,
  • stress,
  • battle,
  • yak,
  • gab,
  • trouble.
  •
  • disturbance,
  • disorder,
  • turmoil,
  • turbulence,
  • pandemonium,
  • bedlam,
  • commotion,
  • hubbub,
  • uproar,
  • tumult.
  •conversation (noun)
  • confab,
  • confabulation.
  •empty talk (noun)
  • flummery,
  • parley,
  • conversation,
  • wheedle,
  • talk,
  • discussion,
  • gab,
  • dialogue,
  • cajolery,
  • clack,
  • chatter,
  • blab,
  • empty talk,
  • babble,
  • chitchat,
  • debate,
  • flatter,
  • conference.
  •flattery (noun)
  • fawning,
  • sycophancy,
  • honeyed words,
  • cajolery,
  • soft-soap,
  • eyewash,
  • hokum,
  • flummery.
  •gibberish (noun)
  • jabberwocky,
  • blah-blah.
  •language (noun)
  • langue.
  •palaver (noun)
  • empty talk,
  • cajole,
  • rhetoric,
  • coax,
  • tattle,
  • prattle,
  • blarney,
  • tittle-tattle,
  • wheedle,
  • gabble,
  • inveigle,
  • gibber,
  • clack,
  • maunder,
  • blab,
  • sweet-talk,
  • hot air,
  • twaddle,
  • prate,
  • empty words,
  • chatter,
  • piffle,
  • cajolery,
  • blandishment,
  • blabber.
  •speech (noun)
  • nonsense,
  • conversation,
  • oral communication.
  •tommyrot (noun)
  • bunkum.
  •twaddle (noun)
  • Stultiloquence.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • yak,
  • spiel,
  • flattery,
  • nonsense.
  •
  • small talk,
  • gab,
  • speech.
  •
  • gas,
  • rattle.
  •confab
  • chaffer.
  •converse
  • confabulate.
  •powwow
  • go into a huddle.
  •talk
  • conversation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • entice,
  • balderdash,
  • gibberish,
  • grease,
  • drivel,
  • tumult,
  • collogue,
  • run off at the mouth,
  • confer with,
  • rap session,
  • council,
  • flatter,
  • stress,
  • dictionary,
  • sycophancy,
  • gobbledegook,
  • fawning,
  • congress,
  • kerfuffle,
  • slaver,
  • ramble,
  • verbiage,
  • deliberation,
  • primary,
  • caucus,
  • grandiosity,
  • blah-blah,
  • take up with,
  • talking,
  • back-and-forth,
  • effusion,
  • honeyed words,
  • confer,
  • language,
  • speech,
  • terminology,
  • guff,
  • schmooze,
  • grandiloquence,
  • beguile,
  • ordeal,
  • talk nonsense,
  • sweet nothings,
  • meet,
  • chaffer,
  • colloquium,
  • chin,
  • sweet words,
  • haggle,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • unintelligibility,
  • duologue,
  • chat,
  • assembly,
  • GUP,
  • chinfest,
  • bull session,
  • occasions,
  • double-talk,
  • jabber,
  • to-do,
  • Twattle,
  • council of war,
  • babble out,
  • UY,
  • chit-chat,
  • accent,
  • feckless,
  • eyewash,
  • seance,
  • baloney,
  • purposeless,
  • yak,
  • Haver,
  • audience,
  • natter,
  • conclave,
  • rot,
  • poppycock,
  • waffle,
  • deliberate,
  • disturbance,
  • wish-wash,
  • fawn on,
  • crap,
  • reason,
  • locution,
  • go into a huddle,
  • jaw,
  • get together,
  • cackle,
  • Prittle-prattle,
  • disorder,
  • take counsel,
  • elocution,
  • gobbledygook,
  • vaporing,
  • gammon,
  • Puffery,
  • fairy tale,
  • mere talk,
  • counsel,
  • powwow,
  • summitry,
  • Fiddledeedee,
  • prattling,
  • Gibbering,
  • blither,
  • dialogue,
  • gabbling,
  • consult,
  • lookout,
  • click,
  • apple sauce,
  • put heads together,
  • boloney,
  • blethers,
  • talk,
  • go on,
  • jolly along,
  • bunk,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • langue,
  • Palavering,
  • loquacity,
  • turmoil,
  • prose,
  • negotiation,
  • backchat,
  • skimble-skamble,
  • bombastic,
  • blithering,
  • Babblement,
  • rattling on,
  • commentary,
  • conceit,
  • Outtalk,
  • horse feathers,
  • drool,
  • out-and-out,
  • pandemonium,
  • turbulence,
  • folderol,
  • small talk,
  • Stultiloquence,
  • bull,
  • fair words,
  • blurt,
  • give and take,
  • durbar,
  • pour forth,
  • mussitate,
  • flattery,
  • jabbering,
  • bargain,
  • bilge,
  • peach,
  • discussion,
  • exchange,
  • battle,
  • entrap,
  • house,
  • visit,
  • say,
  • rigmarole,
  • exhibition,
  • talks,
  • Glaver,
  • complain,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • parley,
  • negotiate,
  • shrewish,
  • Trialogue,
  • Logomachy,
  • discuss,
  • rubbish,
  • yakety-yak,
  • codswallop,
  • confrontation,
  • prolixity,
  • oil,
  • horseshit,
  • Jawing,
  • commune with,
  • ornateness,
  • rodomontade,
  • soft-soap,
  • parlance,
  • inflated,
  • cluck,
  • idle talk,
  • soap,
  • advise with,
  • nagging,
  • incense,
  • convention,
  • Gibble-gabble,
  • spout off,
  • gush,
  • rattle on,
  • mere words,
  • confabulation,
  • speaking,
  • thorough,
  • patter,
  • claver,
  • carry on,
  • exchange observations,
  • going on,
  • accents,
  • discourse,
  • shoot the bull,
  • clatter,
  • tattling,
  • commotion,
  • magniloquence,
  • mag,
  • truism,
  • trouble,
  • conversation,
  • platitude,
  • reel off,
  • huddle,
  • hooey,
  • lexicon,
  • murmur,
  • bandy words,
  • mislead,
  • cobblers,
  • quorum,
  • nuisance,
  • talk away,
  • argument,
  • idle chatter,
  • grandiloquent,
  • seminar,
  • conference,
  • jabberwocky,
  • adulation,
  • garbage,
  • cajole,
  • bargaining,
  • blandish,
  • bedlam,
  • flapdoodle,
  • exploration,
  • maundering,
  • fudge,
  • comment,
  • jangle,
  • stuff,
  • consultation,
  • bombast,
  • bullshit,
  • talk with,
  • summit,
  • Pourparler,
  • voluble,
  • conventicle,
  • fawn upon,
  • nattering,
  • absurdity,
  • round table,
  • deal,
  • praise,
  • colloquy,
  • hogwash,
  • meeting,
  • trash,
  • pompous,
  • Cajolement,
  • chew,
  • claptrap,
  • waffling,
  • vagueness,
  • tragedy,
  • persuade,
  • concern,
  • Hell,
  • procedure,
  • rant,
  • bullied,
  • Beslobber,
  • gabbing,
  • talk over,
  • consult with,
  • attract,
  • falderal,
  • yack,
  • hubbub,
  • nightmare,
  • buncombe,
  • inquest,
  • balls,
  • twitter,
  • news conference,
  • refer,
  • communicate with,
  • tempt,
  • trumpery,
  • war of words,
  • song and dance,
  • summit conference,
  • blab out,
  • grandiose,
  • inanity,
  • shoot the breeze,
  • blathering,
  • gab,
  • bosh,
  • blethering,
  • quagmire,
  • mutter,
  • interview,
  • high-level talk,
  • Galimatias,
  • hokum,
  • plethoric,
  • argumentation,
  • confabulate,
  • chattering,
  • wheedling,
  • wittering,
  • repeat,
  • affair,
  • words,
  • nonsense,
  • meaningless,
  • slobber over,
  • browbeat,
  • Curry Favour,
  • chew the rag,
  • exchange of views,
  • verbalize,
  • Bavardage,
  • fuss,
  • verbose,
  • expatiate,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • crisis,
  • Prating,
  • rapping,
  • babbling,
  • sitting,
  • absolute,
  • amphigory,
  • vocabulary,
  • Blatter,
  • babble,
  • Negotiations,
  • blether,
  • rap,
  • Cackling,
  • tosh,
  • parole,
  • gas,
  • compare notes,
  • tripe,
  • seduce,
  • clique,
  • call in,
  • wordiness,
  • Bibble-babble,
  • yakking,
  • Beslubber,
  • reason with,
  • gabfest,
  • press conference,
  • causerie,
  • exchange views,
  • ramble on,
  • Twittering,
  • debate,
  • brattle,
  • bother,
  • witter,
  • gossip,
  • spiel,
  • uproar,
  • flummery,
  • session,
  • spout,
  • intone,
  • rigamarole,
  • moonshine,
  • performance,
  • blather,
  • sing,
  • talkfest,
  • stuff and nonsense,
  • fustian,
  • speak,
  • chin-wag,
  • run,
  • bunkum,
  • compliment,
  • mumble,
  • Double Dutch,
  • perfect,
  • overreach,
  • jargon,
  • rattle,
  • adulate,
  • dither,
  • oral communication,
  • yakkety-yak,
  • argy-bargy,
  • humbug,
  • malarkey,
  • chitchat,
  • cant,
  • converse,
  • indaba,
  • singing,
  • baragouin,
  • Prolation,
  • tommyrot,
  • refer to,
  • confab,
  • business.

Antonyms for Palaver:

• n.

  • empty talk
    quiet, silence.

Hyponym for Palaver:

• v.

  • communication
    parley.