Word Meanings - CHAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden. Syn. -- To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHAT)

• Conversation
• Converse
• dialogue
• talk
• conference
• colloquy
• confabulation
• chat
• Converse Talk
• discourse
• speak

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHAT)

• Keep silent

Related words: (words related to CHAT)

• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• COLLOQUY
  1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood. 2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• CONVERSE
  to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. 1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world,
• SILENT
  Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• CONVERSATION
  conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
• SILENTIOUS
  Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
• CONVERSATIONISM
  A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.
• CONVERSATIONAL
  Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.
• SILENTNESS
  State of being silent; silence.
• CONVERSATIONALIST
  A conversationist.
• CONFABULATION
  Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.
• CONVERSATIONED
  Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.
• CONVERSER
  One who engages in conversation.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
• UNSPEAK
  To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
• BESPEAK
  besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
• HOME-SPEAKING
  Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.
• FORESPEAK
  See FORSPEAK