- 1. a. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter. Source: opted
- 2. a. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue. Source: opted
- 3. a. Changeable; unstable; fickle. Source: opted
- 4. a. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. Source: opted
- 5. adj. marked by a ready flow of speech Source: wordnet
- 6. 1. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter. 2. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue. [Cassio,] a knave very voluble. Shak. Note: Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. "A grave and voluble eloquence." Bp. Hacket. 3. Changeable; unstable; fickle. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem (Bot.), a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- Vol"u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol"u*bly, adv. Source: webster
- 7. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, thevoluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem (Bot.), a stem that climbsby winding, or twining, round another body.-- Vol"u*ble*ness, n.-- Vol"u*bly, adv. Source: adambom
- 8. j:100 a. marked by a ready flow of speech Source: ecdict
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