babbles

Speaks without sense

Babbles is the third-person singular of babble, meaning to talk rapidly and continuously in a way that is foolish, excited, or difficult to understand.

Babies babble before they can form words, producing streams of sounds that approximate speech.

Water babbles when it makes the continuous murmuring sound of a brook flowing over rocks.

She babbles on about nothing in particular.

The noun babble refers to such speech or sound.

speech

chatter

Light, rapid speech

blather · ramble · mumble · drivel · twaddle · gossip · chitchat · natter · yammer · blabber

water

brook

Small flowing watercourse

  • creekNarrow natural watercourse
  • rippleMinor surface disturbance
  • gurgleBubbling liquid sound

trickle · murmur · burble · stream · rivulet · runnel · rill · freshet · spring · cascade

Opposites
coherence of speech

babblesarticulates

Expresses in words

enunciates · orates · declaims · expounds · lectures

verbal control and restraint

babbleskeeps mum

clams up · keeps counsel · bites tongue · shuts up · listens

SOUND QUALITY (of water/streams)

babblesroars

Loud, deep cries

thunders · rushes · crashes · torrents · rages

Phrases
Family

babble, babbling, babbled, babbler, babblers, babblings

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G