blether
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈblɛðə/
- UK
:
charla
- 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
868
3.2
Informal conversation about other people that may not be true
184
1.1
Informal talk about other people's private lives, often with rumors
87
3.5
Continuous talk about small things, often lively and noisy
5
9.3
Words or ideas that sound important but have little real meaning
5
8.7
Silly talk about unimportant things
2
9.9
Foolish talk that is not true or useful
1
5.8
Casual talk about small, unimportant things, often gossip
1
9.9
Talk that is useless and does not help
1
9.9
Long, silly talk that has no useful meaning
1
9.7
A lot of noisy talking about not important things
1
9.5
Light talk between people with little meaning
1
9.9
Loud, silly talk that has no useful meaning
Light talk about unimportant, silly things people say
Light, silly talk about other people
Light friendly talk about small unimportant things, often gossip
Continuous trivial talk that says nothing important
Talk that is silly and not true
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.