Voluble
['vɒljʊb(ə)l] or ['vɑljəbl]
Definition
(adj.) marked by a ready flow of speech; 'she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations' .
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Definition
(a.) Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
(a.) Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
(a.) Changeable; unstable; fickle.
(a.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fluent, glib, loquacious, talkative, TONGUY, of a ready tongue, ready in speech, nimble of speech.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Boiling, running, coursing, fluent, rapid, loquacious, glib, fluent, talkative
ANT:Stagnant, creeping, tardy, slow, sluggish, lazy, torpid, hesitating,tardiloquent, stammering, stuttering
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Definition
adj. easy to roll or move: flowing smoothly: fluent in speech.—adj. Vol′ubile (Milt.) rolling: revolving.—ns. Volubil′ity Vol′ubleness state or quality of being voluble: fluency of speech.—adv. Vol′ubly.
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Examples
- Emanuel was eloquent; but Madame Panache was voluble. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is no better, the voluble Vengeance protested in her shrill notes, in France. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The Englishman broke into voluble and perfect Italian. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sambo was a full black, of great size, very lively, voluble, and full of trick and grimace. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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