drivel

1. 1.

   let saliva drivel from the mouth

   “The baby drooled”

   Synonymsdroolslabberslaverslobberdribble

   Broadersalivate

Other forms of drivel

plural

drivels·

past tense or participle

drivelled

present participle

drivelling

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 drivel

What does drivel mean?

drivel means "a worthless message". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drivel?

drivel has 2 syllables: driv-el. The stress falls on "driv". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɪvəl/.

What is another word for drivel?

Close synonyms include garbage, drool, dribble, slobber, drool. 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 drivel a common word?

drivel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.