Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prate

1 sense of prate

Sense 1
prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music -- (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)
       => yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle -- (noisy talk)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb prate

1 sense of prate

Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble -- (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
       => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")