glib
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
glib
adj 1: marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib
generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"
2: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
slick commercial" [syn: {glib}, {pat}, {slick}]
3: artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-
tongued hypocrite" [syn: {glib}, {glib-tongued}, {smooth-
tongued}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glib \Glib\ (gl[i^]b), a. [Compar. {Glibber} (gl[i^]b"b[~e]r);
superl. {Glibbest} (gl[i^]b"b[e^]st).] [Prob. fr. D.
glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib,
slippery.]
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1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
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2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity;
fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
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I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not. --Shak.
Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glib \Glib\, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]
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The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long
glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging
down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
--Spenser.
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Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. --Southey.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "glib":
Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Mickey Mouse, Tullian,
all jaw, articulate, bland, buttery, candid, casual, chatty, clear,
communicative, conversational, cushy, disarming, easy, easy as pie,
effortless, effusive, eloquent, expansive, facile, facund,
fair-spoken, felicitous, fine-spoken, flip, fluent, fluid, frank,
fulsome, gabby, garrulous, gassy, gossipy, gregarious, gushy,
honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, ingratiating, light, long-winded,
loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nonchalant,
nothing to it, oily, oily-tongued, overtalkative, painless, plain,
prolix, ready, silver, silver-tongued, simple, simple as ABC,
slick, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, soapy,
sociable, soft, soft-spoken, spellbinding, straightforward, suave,
suave-spoken, superficial, talkative, talky, unburdensome,
uncomplicated, unctuous, verbose, vocal, vocative, voluble,
well-spoken, windy
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