ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true synonym nonsense蠢话;傻话;废话 How can you watch that drivel on TV? 你怎么能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西? a novel full of romantic drivel 充满浪漫废话的小说 Don’t talk such drivel. 别说这样的蠢话! He just comes out with a load of drivel about ‘family values’. 他只是说了一大堆关于“家庭价值观”的废话。
Word OriginOld English dreflian (meaning ‘to let saliva’ or ‘mucus flow from the nose or mouth’), of uncertain origin.