Glib

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Performed with a natural, offhand ease: glib conversation.
  • adj. Showing little thought, preparation, or concern: a glib response to a complex question.
  • adj. Marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
  • adj. Smooth or slippery.
  • adj. Artfully persuasive in nature.
  • v. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Smooth; slippery.
  • adj. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble
  • v. To make glib.
  • n. A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
  • v. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To run smoothly; move freely, as the tongue.
  • To make smooth; cause to run smoothly, as the tongue; make glib.
  • Smooth; slippery: as, ice is glib.
  • Running smoothly or sleekly; plausibly voluble: as, a glib tongue.
  • n. A bushy head of hair, formerly common among the Irish. See the extracts.
  • n. A man wearing such a bush of hair.
  • To castrate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having only superficial plausibility
  • adj. artfully persuasive in speech
  • adj. marked by lack of intellectual depth
  • Equivalent
    Variant
    glibber    glibbest   
    Form
    glibly    glibness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    voluble    flippant    smooth    fluent    slippery    castrate    geld    emasculate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gibb    Lib    ad-lib    bib    bibb    crib    gib    jib    kibbe    lib   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    plausible    voluble    fluent    persuasive    flippant    suave    courteous    cryptic    laconic    impudent