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UK
/vˈɒlʌbəl/
]
[ US /ˈvɑɫjəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈvɑɫjəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
marked by a ready flow of speech
she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations
How To Use voluble In A Sentence
- My father was halfway through his third pint and was becoming increasingly voluble when I spotted a red car turning into the road. Times, Sunday Times
- How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
- He became animated and voluble; he even smiled.
- Nevertheless he was too much in awe of the older woman to make any voluble protest.
- It's not often that one hears such voluble praise for this government.
- Never having been confronted with this question before, the usually voluble scientist answers evasively, and it temporarily sinks her mission as Earth's representative to other worlds.
- With a sudden change of manner, his visitant conjured him, in voluble and impetuous terms, to comply. Ferdinando Eboli
- Those voices were more voluble and more naive ten years ago than they are today.
- Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
- Shame made her want to hang on to her outrage, to justify its voluble, satisfying violence. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3