Enough blather; get to the point.
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Blather
//ˈblæðə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "blather" (190 found)
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Closest matches (38)
Strong matches (57)
Related words (95)
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2 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
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5 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- لَغْو noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- بَقَّ verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Bulgarian
4 entries- дърдорене noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- плямпане noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- говоря празни приказки verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- плямпам verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Czech
1 entries- pindat verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Danish
3 entries- jappe verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- pludre verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- skvadre verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Esperanto
3 entries- babilaĉo noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- vortlakso noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- babilaĉi verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Finnish
4 entries- kaakattaa verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- lörpötellä verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- pälpättää verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- pölistä verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
French
2 entries- déblatérer verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- dégoiser verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
German
4 entries- Gelabere noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- Gequassel noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- Gequatsche noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- Laberei noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
Irish
1 entries- bí ag glaigearacht verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Italian
3 entries- blaterare verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- sproloquiare verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- straparlare verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Ladino
1 entries- shushurrear verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Macedonian
2 entries- дрдорење noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- дрдори verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Māori
1 entries- kunanu verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Polish
3 entries- bredzenie noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- bajtlować verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- zbajtlować verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Portuguese
1 entries- tagarelar verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Romanian
1 entries- bodogăni verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Russian
3 entries- тарато́рить verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- трепа́ться verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- треща́ть verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bleadraig verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- blebetati verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- brbljati verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Spanish
1 entries- despotricar verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Swedish
1 entries- pladdra verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Tamil
2 entries- உளறு verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- பேத்து verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Turkish
4 entries- gevezelik etmek verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- saçmalamak verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- zevzeklik etmek verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
- çene çalmak verb (to talk rapidly without making much sense)
Ukrainian
2 entries- базі́кання noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
- балакани́на noun (foolish or nonsensical talk)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
I'd rather get a root canal than listen to this blather.
Source: tatoeba (7707535)
I have better things to do than listen to this blather.
Source: tatoeba (9652245)
I hope they're not going to blather on for too long.
Source: tatoeba (10106164)
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