Voluble

/ˈvɒl.jʊ.bəl/ · adjective

Meaning

(of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech.
2. Of thoughts, feelings, or something that is expressed: expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.
3. Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.
4. (botany) Twisting and turning like a vine.

Example Sentences

A moſt acute Iuuvenal, voluble and free of grace, […]

What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!

But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before. It was as though he were bursting with pent energy which must find an outlet somehow.

In the summer of 2020, Daniel Beunza, a voluble Spanish social scientist who taught at Cass business school in London, organised a stream of video calls with a dozen senior bankers in the US and Europe.

Thus farr the occaſion of this diſcours againſt Tumults; now to the diſcours itſelf, voluble anough, and full of ſentence, but that, for the moſt part, either ſpecious rather then ſolid, or to his cauſe nothing pertinent.

He heard[…]the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble remorse, and in voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy.

As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.

In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.

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• more voluble
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