Childish vs Prattle - What's the difference?
childish | prattle |
Of or suitable for a child.
Behaving immaturely.
(ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
Silly, childish, talk; babble.
* c. 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice , Act I, scene I, line 27
As an adjective childish
is of or suitable for a child.As a verb prattle is
to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.As a noun prattle is
silly, childish, talk; babble.childish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
Synonyms
* (behaving immaturely) infantile, immature, silly, unbecoming, juvenileprattle
English
Verb
(prattl)Derived terms
* prattler * prattlinglyNoun
(-)- Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.