voluble

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: vol=u=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

voluble, 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.].

•  Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.  [1913 Webster]
•  Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.  [1913 Webster]

  " Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. “A grave and voluble eloquence.”"  Bp. Hacket.  [1913 Webster]

  "[Cassio,] a knave very voluble."  [1913 Webster]
•  Changeable; unstable; fickle.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

voluble, adj.
1 speaking or spoken vehemently, incessantly, or fluently (voluble spokesman; voluble excuses).
2 Bot. twisting round a support, twining.

Derivative

volubility n. volubleness n. volubly adv.

Etymology

F voluble or L volubilis f. volvere roll

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

voluble

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.