Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.
  • adjective Turning easily on an axis; rotating.
  • adjective Botany Twining or twisting.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating.
  • adjective Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib.
  • adjective obsolete Changeable; unstable; fickle.
  • adjective (Bot.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining.
  • adjective (Bot.) a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.
  • adjective Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.
  • adjective Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.
  • adjective botany Twisting and turning like a vine.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by a ready flow of speech

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin volūbilis ("rolling"), from volvō ("I roll").

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  • voluble: of fluent speech.

    voluble: inconstant.

    January 10, 2008

  • adj. Talkative

    May 21, 2009

  • volubility

    noun: the quality of talking or writing easily and continuously

    The professor's volubility knows no bounds; he could talk through a hurricane and elaborate a point from one St. Patrick's Day to the next.

    October 12, 2016