Blather
verb
To talk a lot but without making much sense.
He just blathers on about sports all day long.
Often appears as...
- blather on
- blather about
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
Long and pointless talk that is hard to understand or meaningless.
I couldn't understand his blather about politics.
Often appears as...
- complete blather
- typical blather
Usage tips
Colloquial
verb
To talk a lot but without making much sense.
He just blathers on about sports all day long.
Often appears as...
- blather on
- blather about
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
Long and pointless talk that is hard to understand or meaningless.
I couldn't understand his blather about politics.
Often appears as...
- complete blather
- typical blather
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Casual Conversations
Used in relaxed, informal settings among friends or casual acquaintances.
At the party, her blathering on left me bored.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
Implies the speaker's annoyance or disinterest towards the content or length of conversation.
His blathering didn't contribute anything of value.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Focus
Can be used when someone talks excessively on a specific topic.
They blather about their vacation endlessly.
Compare with
babblechatterdrivelgabgibberjabbernonsenseprattleramble
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in places that were certain they were done with it. There is always the hope of redemption. But it will not be a cheap, shallow redemption that comes through blather about us all being in it together. This will take more.
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A letter to all who have...
in places that were certain they were done with it. There is always the hope of redemption. But it will not be a cheap, shallow redemption that comes through blather about us all being in it together. This will take more.
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Quote examples
Harry Browne
American Writer
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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Frank McCourt
Irish Author
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
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Cecily von Ziegesar
American Author
I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.
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Alex Grey
American Artist
God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.
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George Will
Journalist
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
American Author
Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.
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Harry Browne
American Writer
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
Quote examples
Frank McCourt
Irish Author
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
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Cecily von Ziegesar
American Author
I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.
Quote examples
Alex Grey
American Artist
God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.
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George Will
Journalist
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
American Author
Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.
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