CHATS Synonyms: 111 Similar and Opposite Words

chats 1 of 2

noun

plural of chat

as in talks

friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this short chats between parents and teachers during the school's open house

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as in conversations

talking or a talk between two or more people a fireside chat between two of America's foremost men of letters

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chats

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verb

present tense third-person singular of chat

as in converses

to engage in casual or rambling conversation the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours

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as in chatters

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours

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Recent Examples of chats

Noun

The show featured chats with guests and Christian entertainers. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 The show was based around chats with guests and Christian entertainers, with Bakker offering upbeat sermons and Tammy Faye singing. — Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 The biggest controversy came in June, when Anthropic began mandating a 30-day retention policy for all chats with its most powerful AI models, Fable and Mythos. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 The picture of the boys was a viral TikTok prompt that encouraged users to show images of their group chats. — Terry Castleman follow, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 OpenAI introduced teen accounts in August, about four years after launching ChatGPT, with restrictions that include a ban on romantic chats and any suggestions that the chatbot has personal feelings toward the user. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 The moment when the audience gets up, goes to the restroom, orders drinks, and chats in the hallway. — Olivier Bouchara, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026 Tired of Luann’s antics already, Porsha chats with the other women during it, and Luann doesn’t just yell at her from the stage but walks into the crowd to scold her face-to-face into the microphone. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026 Once the men arrived and got comfortable, Hansen would enter the room and confront them, often reading directly from transcripts of their online chats. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2026

Verb

Afterward, everyone chats for a little while—a manageable dose of socializing for people who’d rather not work a crowded room. — Angela Haupt, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 Shuenemeyer regularly chats with other arborists from Maine to Washington, looking to identify and catalog historic varieties of apples. — Kevin Strong, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 Some of the German Telegram chats date back to at least 2020, court documents show. — ABC News, 8 July 2026 Dwayne Johnson chats all things Moana during a special Q&A to promote the live-action film in Rio De Janeiro July 2. — Brendan Le Updated, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 While Yahia chats with The Star, his daughter, Hannah, takes a tray of baklava out of the oven. — Jenna Thompson june 24, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026 Inside the motel, Paula chats with Sky. — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 10 June 2026 The tool chats with job candidates, answers their questions about Chipotle, collects basic information, schedules interviews, and sends offer letters to candidates selected by hiring managers. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 June 2026 Over 150 episodes, Broski genially but insightfully chats with a wide range of guests, from fellow YouTubers to A-list talent. — Randee Dawn, Variety, 26 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chats

Noun

The meeting came as indirect talks between Washington and Tehran have yet to yield meaningful progress.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Bibb claimed the group is also in talks with members of Congress about aligning their agendas.

— Isabella Murray, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of talks

Noun

Meta also says Muse conversations and data inside its virtual machine do not get shared with Meta's advertising systems.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Mercury in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo, making opinions stronger, reactions quicker, and certain conversations easier to escalate than intended.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of conversations

Verb

Entire product categories that were barely imaginable in 2020 are now weekend projects such as a tutor that converses in Mandarin, a paralegal that drafts and redlines, and a designer that produces forty variations before lunch.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Epstein converses with Summers Larry Summers, Clinton’s Treasury secretary and the director of the National Economic Council under former President Obama, corresponded with Epstein numerous times via email.

— Max Rego, The Hill, 13 Nov. 2025

Definition of converses

Noun

However, during the discussions, Coral Gables Finance Director Diana Gomez pinpointed some possible projects the city could decrease funding for in order to accommodate the Underline funding.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
In 2024, Projeto Paradiso was also one of the driving forces behind a new partnership with the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), which led to the creation of HBF+Brazil following initial discussions at Encontro de Ideias.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of discussions

Verb

O’Kane shouts when Tom Brokaw announces that one of the men suspected of plotting the attack has been detained.

— Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Fighters loyal to the Houthi authorities, shouts slogans during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on September 10, 2026.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026