Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prattle
Participle: prattled
Gerund: prattling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prattle |
| you | prattle |
| he;she;it | prattles |
| we | prattle |
| you | prattle |
| they | prattle |
Perfect
| I | have prattled |
| you | have prattled |
| he;she;it | has prattled |
| we | have prattled |
| you | have prattled |
| they | have prattled |
Past
| I | prattled |
| you | prattled |
| he;she;it | prattled |
| we | prattled |
| you | prattled |
| they | prattled |
Pluperfect
| I | had prattled |
| you | had prattled |
| he;she;it | had prattled |
| we | had prattled |
| you | had prattled |
| they | had prattled |
Future
| I | will prattle |
| you | will prattle |
| he;she;it | will prattle |
| we | will prattle |
| you | will prattle |
| they | will prattle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have prattled |
| you | will have prattled |
| he;she;it | will have prattled |
| we | will have prattled |
| you | will have prattled |
| they | will have prattled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prattle |
| you | prattle |
| he;she;it | prattle |
| we | prattle |
| you | prattle |
| they | prattle |
Perfect
| I | have prattled |
| you | have prattled |
| he;she;it | have prattled |
| we | have prattled |
| you | have prattled |
| they | have prattled |
Imperfect
| I | prattled |
| you | prattled |
| he;she;it | prattled |
| we | prattled |
| you | prattled |
| they | prattled |
Pluperfect
| I | had prattled |
| you | had prattled |
| he;she;it | had prattled |
| we | had prattled |
| you | had prattled |
| they | had prattled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prattle |
| you | would prattle |
| he;she;it | would prattle |
| we | would prattle |
| you | would prattle |
| they | would prattle |
Perfect
| I | would have prattled |
| you | would have prattled |
| he;she;it | would have prattled |
| we | would have prattled |
| you | would have prattled |
| they | would have prattled |
Imperative
| you | prattle |
| we | Let's prattle |
| you | prattle |
Verbs conjugated like 'prattle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prattle'
brattle,
rattle,
sprattle,
battle,
berattle,
pettle,
pittle,
prate,
rerattle,
ruttle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to talk incessantly and childishly
- rabbit
- to talk foolishly
- blabber
- to chatter
- tattle
- speak in a disorganized manner
- babble, maunder, ramble
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
- chatter
- babble, blather, gab, jabber, gush, prate, gibber-jabber, tattle
Antonyms
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- orate, pontificate, speechify
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”). See: Dutch '
pruttelen', Dutch '
preutelen'.
Verbs referencing "prattle"
Dutch
pruttelen, German, old spelling
prütteln.
Sample Sentences
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And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay. [1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:]
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I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on. [1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:]