Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word voluable.

Examples

  • One person will be more voluable and the other more terse.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • As the person who is usually more voluable, I can tell you that I know when it's time for the other person to speak when I get a sudden feeling that I've been talking too long.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • One person will be more voluable and the other more terse.

    Conversational Rhythms 2008

  • So the voluable person will speak for a longer time than the terse person, and they'll take turns.

    Conversational Rhythms 2008

  • So the voluable person will speak for a longer time than the terse person, and they'll take turns.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • As the person who is usually more voluable, I can tell you that I know when it's time for the other person to speak when I get a sudden feeling that I've been talking too long.

    Conversational Rhythms 2008

  • And native testimony, while voluable and unscrupulous, had a way of offering confused discrepancies to the coldly questioning investigators of the law.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • She was at once plaintive and voluable, and in moments of excitement her need of freeing her mind was so great that she took herself into her own confidence, and found a more sympathetic listener than when she talked to her husband.

    Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

  • She was at once plaintive and voluable, and in moments of excitement her need of freeing her mind was so great that she took herself into her own confidence, and found a more sympathetic listener than when she talked to her husband.

    Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • Speech and his round about and about manner of conveying his Ideas, I would as soon vote for a voluable old women to an Embassy, as for him.

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 January 1799 1799

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.