Found 3 hits - Term: voluble, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voluble \vol"uble\, 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.
1913 webster
1. easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to
roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
1913 webster
2. moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of
rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant,
voluble, tongue.
1913 webster
cassio, a knave very voluble. --shak.
1913 webster
note: voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of
speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. "a
grave and voluble eloquence." --bp. hacket.
1913 webster
3. changeable; unstable; fickle. obs.
1913 webster
4. bot. having the power or habit of turning or twining;
as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
1913 webster
voluble stem bot., a stem that climbs by winding, or
twining, round another body.
1913 webster -- vol"ubleness, n. -- vol"ubly,
adv.
1913 webster
see also:
well convolvulus devolve involve revolt vault
volume volute voluble stem vol"ubleness vol"ubly
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
voluble
adj : marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely
voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not
conversations" ant: taciturn
see also:
taciturn
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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