Glib

Quick meaning: Glib is an adjective meaning Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

Meaning

Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

More Meanings

1. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
2. Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
3. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.
4. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth or tongue.
5. (dated) Smooth or slippery.
6. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
7. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Example Sentences

a sheet of glib ice

a glib tongue; a glib speech

I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.

A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.

Word Forms

• glibber
• glibbest
• glibs
• glibbing
• glibbed

Synonyms for glib

Depending on context, synonyms include facile, suave, dubber, superficial, plausible, slick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include superficial, smooth-tongued, persuasive, plausible, pat, slick.

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