CHATS Synonyms: 111 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of chat

as in talks

friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this short chats between parents and teachers during the school's open house

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as in conversations

talking or a talk between two or more people a fireside chat between two of America's foremost men of letters

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verb

present tense third-person singular of chat

as in converses

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

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as in chatters

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 chats

Noun

The bench on which Paul (Harrison Ford) chats with Alice (Lukita Maxwell) stands in the park next to the iconic Castle Green, hikes are taken in Eaton Canyon and coffee is consumed at Copa Vida. —

Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026 Simple initiatives like coffee chats, peer recognition or book clubs can foster belonging. —

Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 Rather than relying solely on generic large language models, Glean tailors products like its AI agents to each company, continuously ingesting data from across workplace tools, such as emails, chats, documents, and internal tickets, to create a real-time map of how work happens within that company. —

Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 19 May 2026 Some of their old high school friends, including a man named Erik Yehezkel, were in their group chats. —

Miami Herald, 19 May 2026 Seventy-nine percent of Glamour readers polled agree that side chats are just a natural progression of some conversations. —

Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 May 2026 Meta said incognito chats will be powered by its private processing technology, ensuring conversations remain invisible to anyone, including the company itself. —

Katie Paul, USA Today, 13 May 2026

Verb

Rooster star Steve Carell chats about his latest show at HBO's Rooster Emmy FYC Event on April 26 in Los Angeles. —

Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026 Honey Cooper chats with Professor Nader Gergis before attending his class on Wednesday. —

Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026 Host Mary Louise Kelly chats with national security correspondent Greg Myre and books and culture reporter Andrew Limbong about some of their favorite books and authors in the world of espionage fiction. —

December 29, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025 Gathered around the couch, in a spacious living room soundtracked by hushed jazz piano, her little sister disassociates with headphones while her pops casually chats to her stepmother; observing from a wheelchair is her 94-year-old great-grandmother. —

Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2025

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands during a signing ceremony following talks in Beijing, China, May 20, 2026, in a pool photograph distributed by the Russian state news agency Sputnik.

— CBS News, CBS News, 20 May 2026
With many issues in the contest between incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Nithya Raman and reality TV vet Spencer Pratt impacting the entertainment industry, Deadline talks with the contenders to hear their visions for the city.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 May 2026