English-Thai Dictionary

glib

ADJ คล่องแคล่ว  smooth unctuous klong-klaeo

 

glibly

ADV อย่าง คล่องแคล่ว  คล่อง  พูด อย่างรวดเร็ว  yang-klong-klaeo

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GLIB

a.[L. glaber, smooth; labor, to slide. This word contains the elements of slip. Qu. L. glubo.] 1. Smooth; slippery; admitting a body to slide easily on the surface; as, ice is glib.
2. Smooth; voluble; easily moving; as a glib tongue.

 

GLIB

n.A thick curled bush of hair hanging down over the eyes. [Not in use. ]

 

GLIB

v.t.To castrate. 1. To make smooth.

 

GLIBLY

adv. Smoothly; volubly; as, to slide glibly; to speak glibly.

 

GLIBNESS

n.Smoothness; slipperiness; as a polished ice-like glibness. 1. Volubility of the tongue.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GLIB

Glib, a. [Compar. Glibber; superl. Glibbest.] Etym: [Prob. fr. D.glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery. ]

 

1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs. ]

 

2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak.

 

Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

 

GLIB

GLIB Glib, v. t.

 

Defn: To make glib. [Obs. ] Bp. Hall.

 

GLIB

Glib, n. Etym: [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair. ]

 

Defn: A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs. ] 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. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.

 

GLIB

Glib, v. t. Etym: [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.]

 

Defn: To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

GLIBBERY

GLIBBERY Glib "ber *y, a.

 

1. Slippery; changeable. [Obs. ] My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't. Marston.

 

2. Moving easily; nimble; voluble. [Obs. ] Thy lubrical and glibbery muse. B. Jonson.

 

GLIBLY

GLIBLY Glib "ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

 

GLIBNESS

GLIBNESS Glib "ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being glib.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

glib

glib |glib ɡlɪb | ▶adjective ( glibber , glibbest ) (of words or the person speaking them ) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow: she was careful not to let the answer sound too glib. DERIVATIVES glib ly adverb, glib ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also in the sense ‘smooth, unimpeded ’): ultimately of Germanic origin; related to Dutch glibberig ‘slippery ’ and German glibberig ‘slimy. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

glib

glib |glɪb | ▶adjective ( glibber, glibbest ) (of words or a speaker ) fluent but insincere and shallow: the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue. DERIVATIVES glibly adverb, glibness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also in the sense ‘smooth, unimpeded ’): ultimately of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ‘slippery ’ and German glibberig ‘slimy ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

glib

glib adjective glib phrases rolled off his tongue: slick, pat, fast-talking, smooth-talking; disingenuous, insincere, facile, shallow, superficial, flippant; smooth, silver-tongued, urbane; informal flip, sweet-talking. ANTONYMS sincere.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

glib

glib adjective the glib phrases rolled off his tongue | a glib PR official: slick, pat, neat, plausible, silky, smooth-talking, fast-talking; smooth, urbane, smooth-tongued, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken; fluent, voluble, loquacious, having kissed the Blarney Stone; disingenuous, insincere, facile, shallow, superficial, simplistic, oversimplified, easy, ready, flippant; informal flip, sweet-talking, with the gift of the gab. ANTONYMS sincere, thoughtful; inarticulate. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD glib, slick, smooth, urbane These words, with varying degrees of disapproval, describe extreme ease and confidence in speech or manner. ■ To be glib is always bad. The word most commonly describes utterances that are too easy, fluent, and inadequate to deal with the complexity of an issue, or are too readily produced to be sincere (they should be on their guard against accepting glib answers ). ■ Slick is used of a person or their actions or utterances; it indicates expertise and the assurance that that brings, but it usually implies that this is at the expense of content (a slick public relations campaign ) or of honesty and altruism (slick financiers and face-grinding industrialists ). ■ Someone described as smooth is regarded as possibly insincere or too charming to be trusted (he was too smooth, and his charm a little too insincere, to be a real gentleman ). ■ Urbane is the most positive term. It is used of a person, action, or utterance and indicates a polished and relaxed ease and charm (his urbane discourse is both enlivening and instructive ). Urbane is almost always used to describe men and not women. These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Duden Dictionary

Glibber

Glib ber Substantiv, maskulin norddeutsch , der |Gl i bber |glitschige Masse

 

glibberig

glib be rig Adjektiv norddeutsch |gl i bberig |mittelniederdeutsch glibberich schlüpfrig, glitschig glibberige Quallen

 

glibbern

glib bern schwaches Verb norddeutsch |gl i bbern |schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « niederländisch glibberen = gleiten, glitschen, vielleicht ursprünglich = glatt sein, glänzen und verwandt mit gelb sich schwankend bewegen, wackeln der Boden glibbert unter meinen Füßen

 

Glibberpudding

Glib ber pud ding Substantiv, maskulin norddeutsch scherzhaft , der |Gl i bberpudding |mit Gelatine bereitete Nachspeise; Götterspeise

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

glib

glib /ɡlɪb /形容詞 ～ber ; ～best 1 ｟けなして ｠舌のよく回る, ぺらぺらしゃべる ▸ have a glib tongue 口が達者である 2 ｟けなして ｠うわべだけの, 誠意のない ▸ glib excuses 口先だけの言い訳 3 くつろいだ ; 気楽な .～ness 名詞