Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blather
Participle: blathered
Gerund: blathering
Indicative
Present
| I | blather |
| you | blather |
| he;she;it | blathers |
| we | blather |
| you | blather |
| they | blather |
Perfect
| I | have blathered |
| you | have blathered |
| he;she;it | has blathered |
| we | have blathered |
| you | have blathered |
| they | have blathered |
Past
| I | blathered |
| you | blathered |
| he;she;it | blathered |
| we | blathered |
| you | blathered |
| they | blathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had blathered |
| you | had blathered |
| he;she;it | had blathered |
| we | had blathered |
| you | had blathered |
| they | had blathered |
Future
| I | will blather |
| you | will blather |
| he;she;it | will blather |
| we | will blather |
| you | will blather |
| they | will blather |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blathered |
| you | will have blathered |
| he;she;it | will have blathered |
| we | will have blathered |
| you | will have blathered |
| they | will have blathered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blather |
| you | blather |
| he;she;it | blather |
| we | blather |
| you | blather |
| they | blather |
Perfect
| I | have blathered |
| you | have blathered |
| he;she;it | have blathered |
| we | have blathered |
| you | have blathered |
| they | have blathered |
Imperfect
| I | blathered |
| you | blathered |
| he;she;it | blathered |
| we | blathered |
| you | blathered |
| they | blathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had blathered |
| you | had blathered |
| he;she;it | had blathered |
| we | had blathered |
| you | had blathered |
| they | had blathered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blather |
| you | would blather |
| he;she;it | would blather |
| we | would blather |
| you | would blather |
| they | would blather |
Perfect
| I | would have blathered |
| you | would have blathered |
| he;she;it | would have blathered |
| we | would have blathered |
| you | would have blathered |
| they | would have blathered |
Imperative
| you | blather |
| we | Let's blather |
| you | blather |
Verbs conjugated like 'blather'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blather'
blatter,
blether,
blither,
lather,
slather,
bathe,
batter,
begather,
beslather,
blabber,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”). See: Scots '
blether', German, old spelling '
bladdern', Icelandic '
blaðra'.
Verbs referencing "blather"
Icelandic
blaðra.
Sample Sentences
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“There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke. [1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 249:]
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It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows. [1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 210:]
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On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words. [2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, published 2014, section 5:]
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Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail! [1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, act I, scene i, page 31:]
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[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all. [1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 3, page 214:]