jabber

Examples

• All

• Their raucous jabber, like a mob down at the docks buying spices in bulk lots from the Levant, showed their uncouth manners.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Driving me nuts with all this jabber.

  Ironweed (1987)

• Some people will still be pretty silent and some people will be just jabber boxes.

• We don't use that jabber here.

  Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

• In the background, people buzz around flowers: feel petals, stare deep into nectaries, jabber passionately, carry boxes of plants.

  Fiction book (2002)

• An old Chinese woman jabbers at Patrick incomprehensibly... she doesn't really speak English, communicating instead with exaggerated body language.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The children filled the playground with their happy jabber as they played together.

• During the meeting, there was a lot of jabber that made it hard to focus on the main topic.

• I could hardly follow the jabber of the group at the café, as they spoke too quickly.

Synonyms

J

jabbering

vsjabber

• Informal

4 7.9

Fast, unclear talk that is hard to understand

focuses on difficulty understanding rather than being meaningless

G

gabble

vsjabber

1 9.3

Fast, unclear talking that is hard to understand

has identical meaning and differs only in word form

Antonyms

C

clarity

152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

A

articulation

9 4.6

To express thoughts or feelings clearly in words

How Clear

speech

• Formal

∞ 1.8

to talk

∞ 1.0

to chatter

86 2.7

jabber

• Informal

13 7.8

gibberish

45 7.2

Surface Forms

Etymology