'Glib' definitions:
Definition of 'glib'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"
adjective
adjective
Artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth- tongued hypocrite" [syn: glib, glib-tongued, smooth- tongued]
Definition of 'Glib'
From: GCIDE
- Glib \Glib\, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glib'
From: GCIDE
- Glib \Glib\, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glib'
From: GCIDE
- Glib \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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glib'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. [1913 Webster]
- I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. --Shak.
- Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'glib'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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