chatter
87
3.5
- noun
- /ˈtʃætər/
:
parloteo
- The constant chatter of the children filled the playground with energy and excitement.
- silence the chatter
Who gets all the the mind chatter in your office?
- Who gets all the the mind chatter in your office?
- Maybe it'll be idle gossip and chatter that they then share with others.
- A woman equals envy plus vanity plus chatter plus a confused mind.
- And you also have your mental chatter, not a leash.
- And it was constant chatter about how well I was mowing the grass.
- All of these different theories they make for good chatter, I guess, on cable news.
- Lisa, I commit to you that today I'll stop the negative chatter sooner, quicker, faster.
- I keep seeing a lot of chatter about it, but I haven't gone deep into it.
- Just, you know, prison, prison chatter.
- NIMCO offered the following traffic light strategy to rein in the chatter.
- We've got all of this chatter, this noise that we're, that we've, we've got to deal with.
- You might have heard recently some chatter about the great observatories that NASA has launched.
- This nonsense is buoyed by religious chatter around forgiveness and New Age bunk about redemption.
- So the the chatter is about this one year, like what happens at the end of the year?
- We call this chatter about the general good in our political system gridlock.
Examples
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After the quiet of Mudear's hospital room, Patrice's gay chatter was balm to his soul.
Fiction book (1993) -
But the heart of our chatter was fear and loneliness.
Academic text (2007) -
Lots of crazy chatter. Alright, I love crazy chatter.
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When they were left alone to explore this software, we heard laughter and chatter from them for the first time.
Academic text (2014) -
I keep seeing a lot of chatter about it, but I haven't gone deep into it.
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You might have heard recently some chatter about the great observatories that NASA has launched.
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At 11:00 p.m., the weekly meeting ended, followed by laughs and chatter in the bar next door.
Academic text (2008) -
A speaker interrupted our chatter, asking everyone to sing Eritrea's new national anthem.
Academic text (1996) -
Hector sits quietly with a smile on his face, their chatter incomprehensible to him.
Fiction book (1993) -
During the meeting, there was so much chatter that it was hard to focus on the presentation.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A talk between two or more people to share news and ideas
504
1.0
An activity of sharing ideas or information by speaking to someone
184
1.1
Informal talk about other people's private lives, often with rumors
110
2.6
A lively scene of excited talk and activity among people
65
2.1
Polite short talk about simple topics like the weather
28
2.0
Friendly, light talk about unimportant things
12
7.1
A short friendly talk between people
9
8.3
Loud, continuous talk about unimportant things
5
8.7
Silly talk about unimportant things
4
7.9
Fast, unclear talk that is hard to understand
2
8.8
Loud, constant talk about unimportant things that annoy people
1
5.8
Casual talk about small, unimportant things, often gossip
1
9.7
A lot of noisy talking about not important things
1
8.9
Silly or unimportant talk that wastes time
1
9.5
Light talk between people with little meaning
1
9.9
Loud, silly talk that has no useful meaning
1
9.9
Talk that is silly or not important
Continuous trivial talk that says nothing important
Light talk about unimportant, silly things people say
Light, silly talk about other people
Light friendly talk about small unimportant things, often gossip
Light informal chat between people to enjoy themselves
Compounds
- Specialized
A small groove or dent left by repeated movement, like a glacier scraping rock
How Talkative
75
4.4
- Informal
8
6.5
87
3.5
9
8.4
- Informal
312
1.0
- Informal
65
2.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chatter comes from a sound-copying idea and moved into speech, and it is closely related to chat. So chatter means continuous, often noisy and unimportant talk.