Glib

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  • adjective. Performed with a natural, offhand ease.
  • adjective. Given to or characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Smooth; slippery: as, ice is glib.
  • Running smoothly or sleekly; plausibly voluble: as, a glib tongue.
  • To run smoothly; move freely, as the tongue.
  • To make smooth; cause to run smoothly, as the tongue; make glib.
  • noun. A bushy head of hair, formerly common among the Irish. See the extracts.
  • noun. A man wearing such a bush of hair.
  • To castrate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make glib.
  • noun. A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
  • adjective. Smooth; slippery.
  • adjective. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble
  • transitive verb. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
  • adjective. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
  • adjective. Smooth or slippery.
  • adjective. Artfully persuasive in nature.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having only superficial plausibility
  • adjective. artfully persuasive in speech
  • adjective. marked by lack of intellectual depth
  • Word Usage
    "Been-there-and-back soul, an ability to separate the glib from the gothic."
    Equivalent
    Form
    glibly  glibness  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gibb  Lib  ad-lib  bib  bibb  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    glibber  glibbest