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Natter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To talk idly; chatter.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To talk without purpose.

v. To nag.

n. Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To find fault; to be peevish.

verb-intransitive. To talk constantly; to chatter incessantly to prattle.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To find fault; nag.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. talk socially without exchanging too much information

Word Usage

"JEFFREY EUGENIDES dark natter [dark nat ur] n. an analogue of dark matter, which astrophysicists speculate may constitute as much as 90 percent of the universe, dark natter is empty but continuous chatter of an ominous sort, whether in direct discourse, by way of the electronic media, or in print."

Verb Form

nattered nattering natters

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

converse discourse

Hyponym

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Synonym

Words with the same meaning

chatter

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Attar Hatter Tatar antimatter attar

Same Context

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