Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun babbling
1 sense of babbling
Sense 1
babble, babbling, lallation -- (gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby)
=> gibberish, gibber -- (unintelligible talking)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb babble
4 senses of babble
Sense 1
babble -- (utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention")
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")
Sense 2
babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither -- (to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby")
=> chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble -- (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
Sense 3
ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle -- (flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks")
=> sound, go -- (make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'")
Sense 4
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out -- (divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks")
=> unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out -- (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case")