Voluble

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voluble \Vol"u*ble\, a. [L. volubilis, fr. volvere, volutum, to
     roll, to turn round; akin to Gr. ? to infold, to inwrap, ? to
     roll, G. welle a wave: cf. F. voluble. Cf. F. {Well} of
     water, {Convolvulus}, {Devolve}, {Involve}, {Revolt}, {Vault}
     an arch, {Volume}, {Volute}.]
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     1. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to
        roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
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     2. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of
        rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant,
        voluble, tongue.
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              [Cassio,] a knave very voluble.       --Shak.
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     Note: Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of
           speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. "A
           grave and voluble eloquence." --Bp. Hacket.
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     3. Changeable; unstable; fickle. [Obs.]
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     4. (Bot.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining;
        as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
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     {Voluble stem} (Bot.), a stem that climbs by winding, or
        twining, round another body.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Vol"u*ble*ness}, n. -- {Vol"u*bly},
        adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voluble
       adj : marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely
             voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not
             conversations" [ant: {taciturn}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "voluble":
     all jaw, bombastic, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational,
     effusive, expansive, exuberant, flip, fluent, frank, gabby,
     garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, long-winded,
     loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative,
     profuse, prolix, silver-tongued, smooth, sociable, talkative,
     talky, verbose, vocative, windy, wordy