smatter
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
work with in an amateurish manner
She dabbles in astronomy
Types & categories
- occupy hypernym
Related & opposite
- dabbler derivation
Sense 2 verb
to talk foolishly
The two women babbled and crooned at the baby
Types & categories
- piffle hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
She smatters Russian
Types & categories
- talk hypernym
Related & opposite
- smattering derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dabbler |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | occupy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | babble |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blather |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatterer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | piffle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | smattering |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | talk |