confab

1. 1.

   talk socially without exchanging too much information

   “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

   Synonymschew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulatechitchatchit-chatchatterchaffernattergossipjawclavervisit

   Broaderconverse

   Narrowershmooze
2. 2.

   have a conference in order to talk something over

   “We conferred about a plan of action”

   Synonymsconferconfabulateconsult

   Broaderhash out

   Narrowercollogue

1. 1.

   an informal conversation

   Synonymschatconfabulationschmoozeschmoose

   Broaderconversation

   Narrowerchitchat

Other forms of confab

plural

confabs·

past tense or participle

confabbed

present participle

confabbing

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about confab

What does confab mean?

confab means "talk socially without exchanging too much information". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confab?

confab has 2 syllables: con-fab. The stress falls on "fab".

What is another word for confab?

Close synonyms include chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, chitchat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confab a common word?

confab is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.