twaddle
twaddle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.
- 2.Silly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- alogy
- anticlimax
- bathos
- blunder
- boutade
- bull
- contradictory
- delusion
- disorder
- egregious
- escapade
- exaggeration
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- fool
- foolish
- fustian
- gibberish
- imbecility
- inconsistency
- inconsistent
- jargon
- macaronic
- meaning
- monkey
- moonshine
- muddle
- mummery
- name
- nest
- nonsense
- nonsensical
- nugacity
- paradox
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is twaddle.
- What is to talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst called?
- What is silly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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