prate /pɹeɪt/noun 1verb 1forms 4 noun1 •Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. verb1 •To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.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. — 1606 formsprated · prating · prates · prateth