Thesaurus: glib

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1. superl. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
2. superl. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
3. v. t. To make glib.
4. n. A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
5. v. t. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
6. adj. marked by lack of intellectual depth
7. adj. having only superficial plausibility
8. adj. artfully persuasive in speech
9. 1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.] 2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak. Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.
10. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
11. j:100 s. marked by lack of intellectual depth s. having only superficial plausibility s. artfully persuasive in speech