1. prate - Noun
2. prate - Verb
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 dictionaryEuclid 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