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Glib

Glib Meaning & Definition
Glib Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Glib?

[adj] artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite"
[adj] having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
[adj] marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Glib: glib-tongued | pat | persuasive | plausible | slick | smooth-tongued | superficial

Related Terms | Find terms related to Glib: all jaw | articulate | bland | buttery | candid | casual | chatty | Ciceronian | clear | communicative | conversational | cushy | Demosthenian | Demosthenic | 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 | Mickey Mouse | 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 | Tullian | unburdensome | uncomplicated | unctuous | verbose | vocal | vocative | voluble | well-spoken | windy

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Glib In Webster's Dictionary

\Glib\, a. [Compar. {Glibber}; superl. {Glibbest}.] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.] 1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.] 2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. --Shak. Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
\Glib\, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
\Glib\, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] 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. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. --Southey.
\Glib\, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] --Shak.

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