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Meaning of 'glib' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Glib [ n.]
- A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
2 . Glib [ superl.]
- Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
- Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
3 . Glib [ v. t.]
- To make glib.
- To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Meaning of 'glib' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . glib [ s]
Meaning (1):
- marked by lack of intellectual depth
Example in sentence:
  • a glib response to a complex question;
  • glib generalizations
Meaning (2):
- artfully persuasive in speech
Example in sentence:
  • a glib tongue;
  • a smooth-tongued hypocrite
Meaning (3):
- having only superficial plausibility
Example in sentence:
  • a slick commercial;
  • glib promises

Nearby Words:

gliadin glibly glibness glicke glidden glidder gliddery glide glided gliden

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