Antonyms for prating

Grammar : Verb

Spell : preyt

Phonetic Transcription : preɪt

Definition of prating

Origin : early 15c., from or related to Middle Dutch praten "to chatter" (c.1400), from a West Germanic imitative root (cf. East Frisian proten, Middle Low German praten, Middle High German braten, Swedish prata "to talk, chatter"). Related: Prated; prating. As a noun from 1570s.

verb babble

Example sentences :

The groom is a prating rascal, and your maid ought to mind her own affairs.
Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

I will have no gallivanting, no cozening and smiling and prating and distracting.
Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin

And now let there be no more of this prating in mid-battle as though we were children.
Extract from : « The Iliad » by Homer

“I am tired of thy watching and prating,” declared Francis with spirit.
Extract from : « In Doublet and Hose » by Lucy Foster Madison

Prating like a school-boy about a summons from Miss Wardour.
Extract from : « The Diamond Coterie » by Lawrence L. Lynch

He is still a prating man; and the more I know him, the less I find in him.
Extract from : « Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete » by Samuel Pepys

T was he set us all agog in the beginning with his preaching and prating.
Extract from : « Long Will » by Florence Converse

There's no end to the mischief done by these busy, prating men.
Extract from : « Felix Holt, The Radical » by George Eliot

And all the time the socialists went on prating about the economic revolution.
Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory

The chirurgion is a prating fello, and I think sett on per others.
Extract from : « Diary of Richard Cocks Vol. I » by Richard Cocks

Synonyms for prating

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