| Main Entry: | jaw |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bones of chin |
Synonyms: |
bone, chops, jowl, mandible, maxilla, mouth, muzzle, orifice |
| 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: | jaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize |
Synonyms: |
abuse, baste, berate, blame, call on the carpet, censure, rail, rate, revile, scold, tongue-lash, upbraid, vituperate |
Antonyms: |
praise |
| Main Entry: | berate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize hatefully |
Synonyms: |
bawl out, blister, call down, castigate, censure, chew out, chew*, chide, cuss out, eat out, give one hell, give what for, jaw, jump all over, rail at, rake over the coals, rate, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, scold, scorch, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid, vituperate |
Antonyms: |
compliment, hail, praise |
| Main Entry: | chat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk, gossip |
Synonyms: |
babble, blab, burble, cackle, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, converse, gab, go on, jaw, prate, prattle*, run on, shoot the breeze, yap |
Antonyms: |
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: | chew out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
Synonyms: |
bawl out, carpet, criticize, dress down, jaw, revile, tell off, tongue-lash, vituperate, wig, yell at |
Antonyms: |
compliment, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | chin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area under mouth |
Synonyms: |
button, jaw, jawbone, mandible, mentum, point |
| Main Entry: | confer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, deliberate |
Synonyms: |
advise, argue, bargain, blitz*, brainstorm*, breeze*, collogue, confab, confabulate, consult, converse, deal, debate, discourse, flap, gab, get heads together, give meeting, groupthink, huddle, jaw, kick ideas around, negotiate, parley, pick one's brain, powwow, speak, talk, toss ideas around, treat |
| Main Entry: | discuss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk over with another |
Synonyms: |
altercate, argue, bounce off, canvass, compare notes, confabulate, confer, consider, consult with, contend, contest, converse, debate, deliberate, descant, discept, discourse about, dispute, dissert, dissertate, examine, exchange views on, explain, figure, get together, go into, groupthink, hash over, hold forth, jaw, kick about, knock around, moot, put heads together, reason about, review, sift, take up, thrash out, toss around, ventilate, weigh |
Antonyms: |
be quiet |