Associations to the word «Prate»

Wiktionary

PRATE, noun. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
PRATE, verb. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

Dictionary definition

PRATE, noun. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
PRATE, verb. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates