blether
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈblɛðə/
- UK
- The room was full of blether about the latest office gossip.
Examples
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Instead of working, they wasted time in endless blether.
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Please stop your blether and get to the point.
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She loves to engage in blether during lunch.
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The meeting was filled with blether about last weekend's events.
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The meeting was filled with so much blether that no important decisions were made.
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I left the café after listening to their pointless blether about celebrities.
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Her constant blether about trivial matters can be quite exhausting.
Synonyms
471
9.3
Words or ideas that sound important but have little real meaning
198
1.1
Informal talk about other people's private lives, often with rumors
118
3.2
Informal conversation about other people that may not be true
88
3.5
Continuous talk about small things, often lively and noisy
5
8.7
Silly talk about unimportant things
3
9.7
A lot of noisy talking about not important things
2
5.8
Casual talk about small, unimportant things, often gossip
1
9.9
Foolish talk that is not true or useful
1
8.8
Talk that is silly and not true
1
9.5
Light talk between people with little meaning
1
9.9
Long, silly talk that has no useful meaning
1
9.9
Loud, silly talk that has no useful meaning
1
8.4
Light, silly talk about other people
1
9.9
Talk that is useless and does not help
Light talk about unimportant, silly things people say
Light friendly talk about small unimportant things, often gossip
Continuous trivial talk that says nothing important
Antonyms
How Pointless
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blether comes from a Scots word that meant 'chatter' and is like the English word blather. That's why blether refers to idle, silly talk or gossip that has little importance.