Voluble: Definition and part of speech

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Voluble

  1. a. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
  2. a. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
  3. a. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
  4. a. Changeable; unstable; fickle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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