Babbling
['bæblɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Babble
Checker: Susie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Prattle, BABBLE.[2]. Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.
Typist: Lolita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prating, blabbing, talkativeness, tattling, cackling, gossip, loquacity,garrulity
ANT:Reticence, reserve, secretiveness, closeness, refrain, incommunicativeness,taciturnity
Editor: Val
Examples
- I began well; and, but for babbling drabs, I would have finished as I began! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Over babbling brooks they took impossible leaps, which seemed to keep them whole days suspended in the air. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- So if it were not for adult language, we should not be able to see the import of the babbling impulses of infancy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me--impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Nola