Antonyms for chatteringchat·ter·ing

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chattering

   Garrulous signifies given to constant trivial talking. Chattering signifies uttering rapid, noisy, and unintelligible, or scarcely intelligible, sounds, whether articulate words or such as resemble them; chattering is often used of vocal sounds that may be intelligible by themselves but are ill understood owing to confusion of many voices or other cause. The talkative person has a strong disposition to talk, with or without an abundance of words, or many ideas; the loquacious person has an abundant flow of language and much to say on any subject suggested; either may be lively and for a time entertaining; the garrulous person is tedious, repetitious, petty, and self-absorbed. Verbose is applied to utterances more formal than conversation, as to writings or public addresses. We speak of a chattering monkey or a chattering idiot, a talkative child, a talkative or loquacious woman, a garrulous old man, a verbose writer. Compare CIRCUMLOCUTION.

   Antonyms:
   laconic, reserved, reticent, silent, speechless, taciturn

   Synonyms:
   garrulous, loquacious, talkative, verbose

Matched Categories

1. • Noise

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chatter, chatteringnoun

   the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

   Synonyms:
   chatter, cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak

2. chatter, chatteringnoun

   the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

   Synonyms:
   chatter, cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak

How to use chattering in a sentence?

1. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   I think the whole race changed last night. Because you know there was a march among the chattering class to anoint Sen. Rubio.

2. Kahlil Gibran:

   I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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