drivel
Babble without substance
Drivel is foolish, meaningless talk or writing—nonsense that wastes the listener's time: I couldn't sit through another minute of that drivel.
The word suggests not just wrongness but emptiness, speech without substance.
As a verb, to drivel is to talk this way, or in older usage, to let saliva dribble from the mouth—the image behind the metaphor.
ramble
Move or speak without direction
maunder · wander · stray · drift · deviate · tangent · sidetrack · prattle · babble · blather
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- empty talkidle talk, hot air, idle chatter, babble, blather
- gibberishgibberish, nonsense, babble, babbling, garble
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook
- nonsense talkjabbering, prattling, blathering, gibberish, nonsense
- Whimsy Wordsgobbledygook, gibberish, mumbo jumbo, hogwash, balderdash
intellectual quality
drivelwisdom
Good judgment from experience
sense · insight · profundity · brilliance · sagacity
clarity of expression
driveleloquence
Persuasive verbal grace
articulation · diction · enunciation · lucidity · coherence