blather
11
8.4
- noun
- /ˈblæðər/
- Informal
:
palabrería
- And for another, there isn't a lot of really valuable information in the everyday blather that we generate online.
- blather of talk
- political blather
- daily blather
After one particularly long Trump spittle filled blather, Chris Wallace tried to get things back on track.
- After one particularly long Trump spittle filled blather, Chris Wallace tried to get things back on track.
- It's just such blather that is the the reefs of so inauthentic.
Examples
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But it might be too much for you to listen to the GC's blather.
Fiction book (2002) -
Isn't that like a man, all blather and big talk?
Fiction book (1999) -
And the next thing you know, it becomes part of the ongoing pattern or blather of an individual.
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Spare me the Discovery Channel blather.
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"I'll ask you one more time," he said simply, "and don't give me any more blather."
Fiction book (1995) -
Other than that, however, I just find his vapid dilettante blather to be boring.
Blog text (17) -
The people being criticized for the over-the-top blather need to paint the moderate as an extremist.
Blog text (7) -
Your fulminations, milords and gentlemen... are full of bilge and blather.
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I wish that Film Crit Hulk's essay would stop with the journalistic blather and talk about the friggin' movie.
Blog text (21) -
The politician's speech was filled with empty promises and unnecessary blather that offered no real solutions.
Synonyms
578
2.5
Words or ideas that do not make sense
48
7.5
Talk that is not true or is silly
45
7.2
Speech or writing that does not make sense
10
9.9
Silly talk that is not true
9
9.9
Confusing speech or writing full of technical words that most people cannot understand
8
9.9
Nonsense language that sounds like real speech but has no clear meaning
5
9.3
Words or ideas that sound important but have little real meaning
5
8.6
Silly, unimportant talk that has no meaning
5
8.7
Silly talk about unimportant things
3
8.9
Silly talk or ideas that are not true
2
9.9
Foolish talk that is not true or useful
1
9.3
Meaningless words or writing that confuse people
1
9.1
Boring talk that has no useful meaning
1
9.9
Talk or ideas that are untrue and not worth believing
1
9.8
Language that is hard to understand because it uses many difficult words or nonsense
1
6.6
Silly talk that is not true or useful
1
9.9
Talk that is silly or not important
1
4.3
Words that sound important but have no real meaning or action
1
9.9
Silly or false talk that people should not trust
1
9.9
Talk that is false and not worth listening to
1
6.0
Things people say that are completely untrue or pointless
Talk that is silly and not true
Confusing education words that sound important but mean little
Antonyms
Compounds
How Meaningless
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blather comes from older northern English words that meant 'chatter' and 'nonsense', and it is like the common word blabber. So blather as a noun means 'foolish or meaningless talk'.