Meaning of small talk | Babel Free
Definitions
Idle conversation, typically regarding innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness.
Equivalents
Bosanski
parola
Cymraeg
mân siarad
Deutsch
Alltagsgespräch
belanglose Unterhaltung
belangloses Gespräch
Geplauder
Plauderei
plaudern
Smalltalk
עברית
סמול טוק
Hrvatski
parola
Italiano
chiacchiera
Latina
sermunculus
Português
conversa fiada
Српски
parola
Examples
“[T]o the credit of the lady it may be added, that […] without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her.”
“If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.”
“Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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