| Main Entry: | glib |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slick, smooth-talking |
Synonyms: |
artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip, fluent, garrulous, hot-air, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready, silver-tongued, slippery*, smooth operator, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble |
Antonyms: |
inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, tongue-tied, uncommunicative |
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed |
Antonyms: |
dull, inarticulate |
| Main Entry: | facile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
Synonyms: |
accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic, practiced, proficient, pushover, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
Antonyms: |
arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
| Main Entry: | flippant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreverent |
Synonyms: |
brassy, breezy, cheeky*, cocky, disrespectful, flighty, flip*, fresh, frivolous, glib, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, nervy, offhand, pert, playful, rude, sassy*, smart*, smart-alecky, superficial |
Antonyms: |
courteous, respectful, reverent, serious |
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
Synonyms: |
chatty, cogent, copious, cursive, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluent, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued, smooth, smooth-spoken, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, well-versed, wordy |
Antonyms: |
effortful, hesitant, inarticulate, unfluent, unprepared |
| Main Entry: | fulsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
Synonyms: |
adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling |
Antonyms: |
reasonable, sincere |
| Main Entry: | gabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
chattering, chatty, effusive, garrulous, glib, gossiping, gushing, jabbering, long-winded, loose-lipped, loquacious, mouthy, prattling, prolix, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
close-mouthed, quiet, secretive |
| Main Entry: | garrulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
babbling, blabbermouth, chattering, chatty, effusive, flap jaw, gabby, glib, gossiping, gushing, long-winded, loose-lipped, loose-tongued, loquacious, motormouth, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy, running on at the mouth, verbose, voluble, wind-bag, windy, wordy, yakkity, yakky |
Antonyms: |
mum, quiet, reserved, silent, still, untalkative |
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
Antonyms: |
actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | offhand |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt, careless |
Synonyms: |
aloof, breezy, brusque, casual, cavalier, cool*, curt, easygoing, folksy, glib, informal, laid-back, mellow, perfunctory, unceremonious, unconcerned, uninterested |
Antonyms: |
calculated, careful, considered, deliberate, planned |
