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voluble
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations" [ant: taciturn ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a person or a manner of speaking English) fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey. 2 (context of thoughts, feelings, or something that is expressed English) express readily or at length and in a fluent ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "liable to constant change," from Middle French voluble , from Latin volubilis "that turns around, rolling, flowing," figuratively (of speech) "fluent, rapid," from volvere "to turn around, roll" (see volvox ). Meaning "fluent, talkative" first ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a voluble and witty man EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Behind the desk was Jim Bell, the voluble park ranger in charge of the one-room visitors center. ▪ He usually left me floundering in his voluble Gallic wake. ▪ Known ...
Usage examples of voluble.
Lean, swift and voluble, bestrid A starting-point, unfrocked to the bent knee.
I went on pettishly, thinking her rather tardy in obeying my wishes, at the same time wondering at her silence, for she was usually quite voluble.
There followed a voluble expositioninterrupted only by my inserting my fingers into her mouth periodicallywhich I took to be an explanation of what had happened to her.
The shaykh interrupted the voluble petitioner in a voice too quiet to be heard.
In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.
Otherwise the Germans, though voluble, were unsmiling, and here on the threshold of their empire the travellers had their first hint of the anxious mood which seems habitual with these amiable people.
The voluble lady launched out into an indefinite number of questions and suggestions of remedies.
Miss Woodburn, with the needlework which she found easier to be voluble over than a book, expressed in her welcome a neutrality both cordial to Beaton and loyal to Alma.
But when well filled with some of the brandy from the hold of the other prize ship, certain humbler members of the Sicilian lugger's crew had waxed more voluble, averring that the ship had indeed borne no cargo in the last three trips, either, only passengers, noble passengers, mostly.
Le Chapelier clasped hands with him and became congratulatorily voluble, until interrupted by the red-coated giant at the door.
Geronimo let Poirot in and recognizing him as the honoured guest of two nights before became at once voluble in a sibilant conspirational whisper.
Mistress Corviser, who was large, handsome and voluble, looked round from her fireside hob, uttered a muted shriek, dropped her ladle, and came billowing like a ship in full sail to embrace him, shake him, wrinkle her nose at the prison smell of him, abuse him for the damage to his best cotte and hose, box his ears for laughing at her tirade, exclaim lamentably over the dried scar at his temple, and demand that he sit down at once and let her crop the hair that adhered to the matted blood, and clean up the wound.
Neererhe drew, and many a walk travers'd Of stateliest Covert, Cedar, Pine, or Palme, Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen Among thick-wov'n Arborets and Flours Imborderd on each Bank, the hand of EVE: Spot more delicious then those Gardens feign'd Or of reviv'd ADONIS, or renownd ALCINOUS, host of old LAERTES Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire EGYPTIAN Spouse.
Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank, the hand of Eve: Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned Or of revived Adonis, or renowned Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son.
You remember the voluble computer programmer who first piqued your interest, the one who so kindly supplied you with the proof of your suspicions about me?