Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prate
Participle: prated
Gerund: prating
Indicative
Present
| I | prate |
| you | prate |
| he;she;it | prates |
| we | prate |
| you | prate |
| they | prate |
Perfect
| I | have prated |
| you | have prated |
| he;she;it | has prated |
| we | have prated |
| you | have prated |
| they | have prated |
Past
| I | prated |
| you | prated |
| he;she;it | prated |
| we | prated |
| you | prated |
| they | prated |
Pluperfect
| I | had prated |
| you | had prated |
| he;she;it | had prated |
| we | had prated |
| you | had prated |
| they | had prated |
Future
| I | will prate |
| you | will prate |
| he;she;it | will prate |
| we | will prate |
| you | will prate |
| they | will prate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have prated |
| you | will have prated |
| he;she;it | will have prated |
| we | will have prated |
| you | will have prated |
| they | will have prated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prate |
| you | prate |
| he;she;it | prate |
| we | prate |
| you | prate |
| they | prate |
Perfect
| I | have prated |
| you | have prated |
| he;she;it | have prated |
| we | have prated |
| you | have prated |
| they | have prated |
Imperfect
| I | prated |
| you | prated |
| he;she;it | prated |
| we | prated |
| you | prated |
| they | prated |
Pluperfect
| I | had prated |
| you | had prated |
| he;she;it | had prated |
| we | had prated |
| you | had prated |
| they | had prated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prate |
| you | would prate |
| he;she;it | would prate |
| we | would prate |
| you | would prate |
| they | would prate |
Perfect
| I | would have prated |
| you | would have prated |
| he;she;it | would have prated |
| we | would have prated |
| you | would have prated |
| they | would have prated |
Imperative
| you | prate |
| we | Let's prate |
| you | prate |
Verbs conjugated like 'prate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prate'
crate,
grate,
orate,
pirate,
plate,
rate,
uprate,
abate,
aerate,
amate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, 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, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
- chatter
- talk, converse, babble, chat, cackle, prattle, gas, jaw
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1420, from M.Du.
praten "to prate" (c.1400), from a W.Gmc. imitative root (cf. M.L.G.
praten, M.H.G.
braten, Swed.
prata "to talk, chatter").
2. From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”).
3. Related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata;; also cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”). See: Middle English '
praten', Dutch '
praten', Low Saxon 'praten', German, old spelling '
pfrassen', Danish '
prate', Swedish '
prata', Faroese '
práta', Icelandic '
prata', Polish '
bredzić'.
Verbs referencing "prate"
Dutch
praten, Swedish
prata.
Sample Sentences
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Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 136, column 1:]
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What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate! [1697, Virgil, “Pastorl 3”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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Urania speaks with darken’d brow:
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‘Thou pratest here where thou art least;
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This faith has many a purer priest,
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And many an abler voice than thou: […]’ [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 57:]
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They are not so chic, these kids. They don’t haunt press receptions or opening nights; they don’t pose as street punks in the style of Bruce Springsteen, or prate of rock & Rimbaud. [1976 June 7, Nik Cohn, “Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, in New York Magazine:]
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Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family. [1999 February 19, Stephen Holden, “'Office Space': One Big Happy Family? No, Not at This Company”, in New York Times:]