blathering
Speaking without substance
Blathering is talking at length without saying much of substance.
The word suggests rambling, foolish speech that tests the listener's patience: He kept blathering on about his golf game.
As an adjective, it intensifies fool or idiot: You blathering idiot!
Trivial, prolonged speech
- babbleIncoherent speech
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- gabbleRapid, muddled talk
- blabberRamble without substance
yammer · natter · yackety-yak · tattle · patter · clack · palaver · chitchat
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
- verboseMore words than necessary
prolix · windbag · blowhard · circumlocutory · diffuse · grandiloquent · pompous · bombastic
Senseless, silly talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
- gibberishUnintelligible speech or writing
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- hogwashFoolish or untrue talk
malarkey · claptrap · poppycock · flapdoodle · piffle · rubbish · bunkum · codswallop
Long-winded and unfocused
- disjointedLacking orderly sequence
- muddledIn a confused state
- garbledConfused and unintelligible
- jumbledDisordered, lacking arrangement
unintelligible · confused · scattered · meandering · inarticulate · maunder · wandering · unfocused
prattle
Trivial, prolonged speech
blabber · yammer · natter · yackety-yak · tattle · patter · clack · palaver · chitchat · gab
long-winded
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
verbose · prolix · windbag · blowhard · circumlocutory · diffuse · grandiloquent · pompous · bombastic · turgid
drivel
Senseless, silly talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
- gibberishUnintelligible speech or writing
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
hogwash · malarkey · claptrap · poppycock · flapdoodle · piffle · rubbish · bunkum · codswallop · tripe
rambling
Long-winded and unfocused
- disjointedLacking orderly sequence
- muddledIn a confused state
- garbledConfused and unintelligible
jumbled · unintelligible · confused · scattered · meandering · inarticulate · maunder · wandering · unfocused · tangential
- chatterchat, chatter, chatting, chitchat, chit-chat
- nonsense talkjabbering, prattling, gibberish, drivel, nonsense
- talkativechatty, verbose, wordy, mouthy, gossipy
- talkingtalking, chatting, conversing, gabbing, jabbering
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation
blatheringsilent
Producing no sound
taciturn · quiet · mute · reticent · tight-lipped
blatheringarticulate
Express clearly, or well-spoken
coherent · meaningful · lucid · cogent · sensible