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VOLUBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by a ready flow of speech
Example:
she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations
Classified under:
Similar:
chatty; gabby; garrulous; loquacious; talkative; talky (full of trivial conversation)
Also:
communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)
prolix (tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length)
Antonym:
taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)
Derivation:
volubility (the quality of being facile in speech and writing)
