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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.
  2. adj. Turning easily on an axis; rotating.
  3. adj. Botany Twining or twisting: a voluble vine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Formed so as to roll with ease, or to be easily turned or set in motion; apt to roll; rolling; rotating; revolving.
  2. Characterized by a great flow of words or by glibness of utterance; speaking with plausible fluency: as, a voluble politician.
  3. Changeable; mutable.
  4. In botany, of a twining habit; rising spirally around a support, as the hop.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious
  2. adj. easily rolling or turning
  3. adj. twisting and turning like a vine

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating.
  2. adj. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib.
  3. adj. Changeable; unstable; fickle.
  4. adj. Having the power or habit of turning or twining.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by a ready flow of speech

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, moving easily, from Old French, from Latin volūbilis, revolving, fluent, from volvere, to roll; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  • thenike5 adj. Talkative May 21, 2009

  • padawan voluble: of fluent speech.
    voluble: inconstant. Jan 9, 2008

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