'Babbling' definitions:
Definition of 'babbling'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Babbling'
From: GCIDE
- Babble \Bab"ble\ (b[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Babbled (b[a^]b"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Babbling.] [Cf. LG. babbeln, D. babbelen, G. bappeln, bappern, F. babiller, It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child learning to talk.]
- 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To talk much; to chatter; to prate. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. [1913 Webster]
- In every babbling brook he finds a friend. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'babbling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrested,
- backward,
- blithering,
- bubbling,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- delirious,
- dithering,
- dizzy,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- giddy,
- guggling,
- gurgling,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- incoherent,
- lapping,
- lightheaded,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- mongoloid,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- off,
- plashing,
- rambling,
- ranting,
- raving,
- retarded,
- rippling,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- sloshing,
- splashing,
- subnormal,
- swishing,
- trilling,
- wandering