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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voluble
adj : marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely
voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not
conversations" [ant: taciturn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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