jabbered

verb

past tense of jabber
1
as in chatted
to engage in casual or rambling conversation please do not jabber during the rabbi's sermon

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2
as in chattered
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly monkeys jabbering at each other in their cages

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jabbered
  1. chatted
  2. chattered
  3. talked
  4. shouted
  5. conversed
  6. drooled
  7. babbled
  8. sputtered
Verb
  • And in 2023, Tierra Whack and Lil Yachty chatted about hip-hop in Brooklyn, before Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane kept the conversation going.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • As the science reporters chatted with Deisseroth over the phone and Zoom, an AP photographer and videographer raced to his home in Stanford.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of chatted
Verb
  • Some raved about the experience to those in line while others chattered among themselves about their thoughts.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As the courtroom cleared, a jumble of spectators and journalists chattered about the whiplash.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of chattered
Verb
  • But after returning to Kansas City following that second interview in the Windy City, Matthews talked with then-Royals owner Ewing Kauffman.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Read Cep’s Profile of Kingsolver » Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and talked-about books.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of talked
Verb
  • Another customer shouted out the Peppercorn Steak Market meal kit offered by the store.
    — Sadie Chafe, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Carbone shouted out to the crowd from The Grill’s balcony in a Tom Ford tuxedo.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of shouted
Verb
  • Essential California checked out the trials, tested airport counters, walked through the terminal’s new gates and conversed with excited passengers looking forward to their next flight out of Burbank.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of conversed
Verb
  • Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026
Definition of drooled
Verb
  • But Bhatta was hypothermic and occasionally babbled gibberish.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
  • As Lindell babbled on about baseless conspiracy theories involving voting in De Baraso’s home state of Georgia, the 12-year-old shut him down.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Definition of babbled
Verb
  • In the wake of a depressing 69-93 season that sputtered out from the get-go, as so many a Royals campaign does, the club promptly made some substantial changes.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The real concerns came on offense, where the Trojans uncharacteristically sputtered.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of sputtered
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“Jabbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jabbered. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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