| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk about others; spread rumors |
Synonyms: |
babble, bad-mouth, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales, wiggle-waggle |
| Main Entry: | babble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk trivially, often incessantly |
Synonyms: |
blab, blubber, blurt, burble, cackle, chat, chatter, gibber, go on, gossip, gush, jabber, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, prate, prattle, rant, rave, run off at the mouth, run on, spill the beans, squeal, talk foolishly, talk incoherently, talk nonsensically, tattle, trivialize, yak, yakkety yak |
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be quiet |
| Main Entry: | chatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak fast and non-stop |
Synonyms: |
babble, blab, blather, cackle, chat, chitchat, clack, gab, gabble, gas*, gibber, go on and on, gossip, jabber, jaw, natter, palaver, prate, prattle*, tattle, twaddle, twiddle, yak |
Antonyms: |
drawl |
| Main Entry: | divulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known; confess |
Synonyms: |
admit, betray, blab, blow the whistle, broadcast, communicate, cough up, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, fess up, give away, go public, gossip, impart, leak, let hair down, let slip, mouth, open up, own up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, spill, spill the beans, spring, tattle, tell, tip off, uncover |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide, keep, secrete |
| Main Entry: | gab |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk a lot |
Synonyms: |
blabber, blather, buzz*, chatter, gossip, jabber, jaw, prate, prattle, yak, yakkety-yak |
Antonyms: |
be quiet |
| Main Entry: | jaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk a lot |
Synonyms: |
babble, chat, chatter, gab, gossip, jabber, lecture, orate, prate, prattle, yak |
Antonyms: |
be quiet |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk aimlessly, endlessly |
Synonyms: |
amplify, babble, be diffuse, beat around bush, blather, chatter, depart, descant, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, drivel, dwell on, enlarge, excurse, expatiate, get off the subject, go astray, go off on tangent, go on and on, gossip, harp on, lose the thread, maunder, meander, prose, protract, rant and rave, rattle on, stray, talk nonsense, talk off top of head, talk randomly, wander |
Antonyms: |
be direct |
| Main Entry: | rumor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell a supposed truth |
Synonyms: |
bruit, buzz*, circulate, gossip, noise about, pass around, publish, report, say, talk, tattle, whisper |
Antonyms: |
tell truth |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words; inform |
Synonyms: |
articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, sing*, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans, spout, squeak, squeal, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak |
Antonyms: |
listen |
| Main Entry: | tattle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip; tell rumor |
Synonyms: |
babble, blab, chat, chatter, give away, give the show away, gossip, have a big mouth, jabber, leak, noise, prate, prattle*, rumor, snitch, spill, spill the beans, spread rumor, squeal, talk, talk idly, tell on, tell tale, yak |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide |