prate

Speech parts

1. prate - Noun

2. prate - Verb

Meaning

To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.

Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

maunder clack chatter palaver blabber blether tittle-tattle blab prattle tattle twaddle gabble piffle gibber chin music
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Antonyms

shut up pipe down clam up keep quiet be quiet belt up
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Hypernyms

yak speak mouth talk utter chatter

Hyponyms

babble blether smatter blather blither

Phrases with the word

to prate

Derivatives

prated prating

Anagrams

apert peart petar taper trape pater preta parte petra repat retap treap ptera

Examples

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it. Robertson Davies

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Franklin D. Roosevelt

With patient inattention hear him prate. George Meredith

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance. Mao Zedong

Priests should not prate out of the confessional. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Pratcher Pratchett Pratchettian prate-roast prateful prater