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Rated vs Prated - What's the difference?

rated | prated |

As verbs the difference between rated and prated

is that rated is (rate) while prated is (prate).

As an adjective rated

is .

rated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rate)

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
    • He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley :
    • He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated , scowling look.

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    prated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (prate)

    • Anagrams

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    prate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

    • Derived terms

    * prater * pratingly * prattle * prattler

    Verb

    (prat)
  • To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
  • * Dryden
    • What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate , / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!

    Synonyms

    * blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, twaddle

    References

    * (etymology) prate'', in ''Compact Oxford English Dictionary . * (etymolohy) prate'', in ''The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language .

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