Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.
- adjective Turning easily on an axis; rotating.
- adjective Botany Twining or twisting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed so as to roll with ease, or to be easily turned or set in motion; apt to roll; rolling; rotating; revolving.
- Characterized by a great flow of words or by glibness of utterance; speaking with plausible fluency: as, a voluble politician.
- Changeable; mutable.
- In botany, of a twining habit; rising spirally around a support, as the hop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating.
- adjective Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib.
- adjective obsolete Changeable; unstable; fickle.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining.
- adjective (Bot.) a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Fluent or having aready flow ofspeech ;garrulous orloquacious ;tonguey . - adjective
Expressed readily orat length and in a fluent manner. - adjective Easily
rolling or turning; having afluid ,undulating motion. - adjective botany
Twisting andturning like avine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by a ready flow of speech
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.
Now Please Shush! 2007
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Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.
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Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.
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Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.
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With a sudden change of manner, his visitant conjured him, in voluble and impetuous terms, to comply.
Ferdinando Eboli 2002
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And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
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And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision
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And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Most of the people obediently returned to the church, their suddenly loosened tongues clattering in voluble excitement.
Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912
padawan commented on the word voluble
voluble: of fluent speech.
voluble: inconstant.
January 10, 2008
thenike5 commented on the word voluble
adj. Talkative
May 21, 2009
mohitanand commented on the word voluble
volubility
noun: the quality of talking or writing easily and continuously
The professor's volubility knows no bounds; he could talk through a hurricane and elaborate a point from one St. Patrick's Day to the next.
October 12, 2016