Need another word that means the same as “waffle”? Find 32 synonyms and 30 related words for “waffle” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Waffle” are: hesitate, waver, prattle, chatter, babble, ramble, jabber, gibber, gabble, gab, burble, run on, mutter, mumble, prate, drivel, bleat, cackle, jabbering, verbiage, meaningless talk, nonsense, twaddle, gibberish, stuff and nonsense, bunkum, mumbo jumbo, padding, verbosity, prolixity
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “waffle” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| bunkum | Nonsense. They talk a lot of bunkum about their products. |
| drivel | A worthless message. Don t talk such drivel. |
| gibberish | Unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense. He talks gibberish. |
| jabbering | Rapid and indistinct speech. |
| meaningless talk | An exchange of ideas via conversation. |
| mumbo jumbo | Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion. |
| nonsense | Ornamental objects of no great value. She s a strong woman who stands no nonsense. |
| padding | Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort. Avoid waffle or padding in your essay. |
| prattle | Foolish or inconsequential talk. Do you intend to keep up this childish prattle. |
| prolixity | Boring verbosity. |
| stuff and nonsense | Informal terms for personal possessions. |
| twaddle | Pretentious or silly talk or writing. He dismissed the novel as self indulgent twaddle. |
| verbiage | Excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing. Use concise military verbiage. |
| verbosity | An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words. A critic with a reputation for verbosity. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “waffle” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| babble | Utter something rapidly and incoherently. I gasped and stared and babbled Look at this. |
| bleat | (of a sheep, goat, or calf) make a characteristic weak, wavering cry. The lambs were bleating. |
| burble | Make a continuous murmuring noise. The air no longer flows smoothly over the wing but burbles and slows down decreasing lift. |
| cackle | Talk or utter in a cackling manner. The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine. |
| chatter | Cut unevenly with a chattering tool. The magpies were chattering in the trees. |
| drivel | Let saliva drivel from the mouth. The nurse leaves you to drivel and never wipes your nose. |
| gab | Talk at length, typically about trivial matters. It seems they were too busy gabbing about their weekend to actually help a customer. |
| gabble | Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. He gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed. |
| gibber | Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. They shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them. |
| hesitate | Be reluctant to do something. He hesitated to spoil the mood by being inquisitive. |
| jabber | Talk in a rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible way. He jabbered on about football. |
| mumble | Say something indistinctly and quietly, making it difficult for others to hear. Sorry she mumbled. |
| mutter | Say something in a low or barely audible voice, especially in dissatisfaction or irritation. He muttered something under his breath. |
| prate | Talk foolishly or at tedious length about something. I heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half. |
| prattle | Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. She began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist. |
| ramble | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Willy rambled on about Norman archways. |
| run on | Flee; take to one’s heels; cut and run. |
| waver | Move back and forth very rapidly. The flame wavered in the draught. |
| bake | A social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten. Bake a cake. |
| baked | Intoxicated by drink or drugs, especially cannabis. Baked goods. |
| batter | Make a dent or impression in. The loss of his baby turned him into a domineering bully who battered his partner. |
| bread | The bread or wafer used in the Eucharist. A loaf of bread. |
| breakfast | Provide breakfast for. I often have toast for my breakfast. |
| burnt | Ruined by overcooking. She served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits. |
| butter | Spread butter on. Lily buttered a slice of toast. |
| cake | Baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat. A mouthful of cake. |
| cooked | (of food or a meal) prepared by heating. A cooked breakfast. |
| cornbread | Bread made primarily of cornmeal. |
| crisp | A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat. A crisp autumn day. |
| crispy | Tender and brittle. Crispy fried bacon. |
| dessert | A dish served as the last course of a meal. A dessert of chocolate mousse. |
| doubt | Consider unlikely or have doubts about. I doubt these reports. |
| falter | Speak haltingly. Her smile faltered and then faded. |
| fried | Under the influence of alcohol or drugs. A breakfast of fried eggs and bacon. |
| fry | Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair. Drugs fry the brain. |
| grill | A dish of grilled food especially meat. Grill the sausages. |
| hesitate | Be reluctant to do something. One hesitates over publicizing these things. |
| microwave | Cook or heat in a microwave oven. Microwave radiation. |
| oven | An enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food. The sun was beating down on to my little tent and it was like an oven in there. |
| pancake | With reference to an aircraft make or cause to make a pancake landing. Hurley s car was pancaked. |
| recipe | Something which is likely to lead to a particular outcome. It would be useless to enumerate all the drugs and recipes for their application which have been tried. |
| roast | The process of roasting something especially coffee or the result of this. If you waste his time he ll roast you. |
| sandwich | Something that is constructed like or has the form of a sandwich. The degree includes a sandwich year. |
| smoked | (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke. They were hidden behind the smoked glass of their limos. |
| stove | Treat an object by heating it in a stove in order to apply a desired surface coating. Dinner was already on the stove. |
| toast | Slices of bread that have been toasted. We were spread out on the grass toasting ourselves one hot day. |
| toaster | A kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread. |
| warmed | Having been warmed up. A cup of warmed milk. |
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