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glib 音標拼音: [gl'ɪb] a. 能說善道的 能說善道的 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" [ synonym: { glib}, { pat}, { slick}] 3: artfully persuasive in speech; " a glib tongue"; " a smooth- tongued hypocrite" [ synonym: { glib}, { glib- tongued}, { smooth- tongued}] 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]
Glib \ Glib\, v. t. To make glib. [ Obs.] -- Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster]
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]
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] 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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