CHATTED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

chatted

verb

past tense of chat

as in talked

to engage in casual or rambling conversation the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours

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to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours

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Recent Examples of chatted Billboard chatted with October’s Hip-Hop Up & Comer, Noodah 05, about the origins of his name, why old-school R&B always has him in a chokehold, his desire to emulate André 3000, and his aspirations to become the new-age Thanos of rap. — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026 Authorities say Green has chatted with hundreds of young girls online. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Alphonso Tubbs, 56, chatted with Quinonez while looking at the work. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 Inside the restaurant, guests chatted among Dean’s signature Guinness-and-oyster shooters and silver bowls piled high with chips, but the warm fall night meant taking advantage of the sidewalk space also appealed. — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 And in 2023, Tierra Whack and Lil Yachty chatted about hip-hop in Brooklyn, before Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane kept the conversation going. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026 As the science reporters chatted with Deisseroth over the phone and Zoom, an AP photographer and videographer raced to his home in Stanford. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026 Heath and Swain chatted for two hours over the meal, then another three at a bar. — Kaitlin Menza, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 During pre-show cocktails in the Grand Tier Bar, Sigourney Weaver chatted with Frances McDormand as Katie Holmes arrived with her artist beau, Jason Bard Yarmosky. — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026

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Verb

The night before our spaghetti dinner, Caleb sat me down by the cabin’s large, whirling fireplace and talked to me about meatballs for two hours.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
In a follow-up phone interview, Collins talked further about the toll taken.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of talked

Verb

Suspended in a pool, holding onto an oxygen mask as her teeth chattered, Julia Wolf began to seriously consider the possibility of hypothermia.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Some raved about the experience to those in line while others chattered among themselves about their thoughts.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of chattered

Verb

Essential California checked out the trials, tested airport counters, walked through the terminal’s new gates and conversed with excited passengers looking forward to their next flight out of Burbank.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of conversed

Verb

Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.

— Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026

Definition of drooled

Verb

Children shouted, amped up on sugar and adrenaline, while orange leaves crunched under their feet.

— Isa Mudannayake, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Farrelly was on hand to introduce the movie and shouted out his star, newcomer Anthony Ippolito, who has already earned praise for his portrayal of Stallone.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of shouted

Verb

The Broncos got the ball back after stopping Herbert short, and the Chargers sputtered the rest of the way.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
In the wake of a depressing 69-93 season that sputtered out from the get-go, as so many a Royals campaign does, the club promptly made some substantial changes.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of sputtered

Verb

Netflix is obviously against the ropes again, after slowing user engagement on the service rattled Wall Street investors and layoffs came this week as a sacrifice to the share price.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Near daily protests rattled Vucic more than ever and protesters forced a government collapse as student rallies drew hundreds of thousands of people.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026