babble
to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle.
to make a continuous, murmuring sound.
to utter in an incoherent, foolish, or meaningless fashion.
to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly: to babble a secret.
inarticulate or imperfect speech.
foolish, meaningless, or incoherent speech; prattle.
a murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
Telecommunications. a confused mixture of extraneous sounds in a circuit, resulting from cross talk from other channels.: Compare cross talk (def. 1).
Origin of babble
1Other words for babble
Other words from babble
- outbabble, verb (used with object), out·bab·bled, out·bab·bling.
Words that may be confused with babble
Words Nearby babble
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How to use babble in a sentence
This ever-expanding bubble of earthly babble has already reached many stars.
The researchers then analyzed the baby bat songs to see if they met eight universal characteristics of human babbles including early onset, repetition, rhythmicity, universality, and occurrence in non-social settings.
Both bats and humans test out talking as infants | Sara Kiley Watson | August 20, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe gorilla dolls have electronics inside for realistic baby babble.
Babbles jokes that many users, including himself, still seem to be cycling through the final three stages.
The Subreddit /r/Collapse Has Become the Doomscrolling Capital of the Internet. Can Its Users Break Free? | Billy Perrigo | October 30, 2020 | TimeThe anti-gun contingent stands before an Everest of obstacles, a wall of patriotic babble about Second Amendment privileges.
In fact, I described them this way myself when I wrote about infant memory two years ago for babble.
Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, and babble.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and babble, among other publications.
Baby Kirst had fulfilled his destiny and would babble his way through the forests no more.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterBut after that momentary and inexplicable experience, the babble of thought went on as before.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdAs they went down into the valley of the Thyme, the babble of the stream rose into the air like a perennial laughter.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonHe does not say cryptic things or babble trivialities in the name of the mighty Dead—the mighty Damned or the mighty Blest.
The Affable Stranger | Peter McArthurAll was silence, except somewhere, secluded and unseen, the splash and babble of falling water.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems | Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for babble
/ (ˈbæbəl) /
to utter (words, sounds, etc) in an incoherent or indistinct jumble
(intr) to talk foolishly, incessantly, or irrelevantly
(tr) to disclose (secrets, confidences, etc) carelessly or impulsively
(intr) (of streams, birds, etc) to make a low murmuring or bubbling sound
incoherent or foolish speech; chatter
a murmuring or bubbling sound
Origin of babble
1Derived forms of babble
- babblement, noun
- babbling, noun, adjective
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