blurting
Speaking without thinking
Blurting is saying something suddenly and impulsively, often without thinking: She kept blurting out the answers before anyone else could respond.
The word suggests words escaping before you can stop them—embarrassing secrets, inappropriate comments, or thoughts better left unspoken.
He has a habit of blurting whatever comes to mind.
Sudden emotional release
- exclaimSpeak out suddenly
- blabbingCarelessly sharing secrets
- slipMinor error or misstep
- gaffeClumsy social error
impulsive · spontaneous · unfiltered · tactless · awkward · faux pas · foot-in-mouth · cringe
outburst
Sudden emotional release
gaffe · impulsive · spontaneous · unfiltered · tactless · awkward · faux pas · foot-in-mouth · cringe · embarrassing
- involuntary speechexclamations, outbursts, Freudian slip, Freudian slips, slip of tongue
- Unscripted Speechad-lib, improv, impromptu speech, winging it, rambling
- fast talkingmotormouthing, reeling off, firing off, patter
- disclosurerevealing, disclosing, disclosure, disclose, divulge
- vocalizationsspeak, speaking, talking, whisper, shout
- letting outrenting, subletting, leasing, emitting, screaming
blurtingdeliberating
Carefully thinking before deciding
measured speech · considering · calculating · hedging · circumlocution
blurtingwithholding
Keeping from another
holding back · biting one's tongue · suppressing · keeping mum · keeping quiet
- blurting outImpulsive verbal release
blur, blurry, blurt, blurt out, blurted, blurts, unblurred, blurter, unblur