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Definition: Voluble |
VolubleAdjective1. Marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "voluble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Voluble \Vol"u*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression volubilis, from volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn round; akin to Greek to infold, to inwrap, to roll, German welle wave: compare to the French expression voluble. Compare to French Well of water, Convolvulus, Devolve, Involve, Revolt, Vault an arch, Volume, Volute.]. (references) |
| Antonym: taciturn (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loquacity | Fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded; (diffuse). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Voluble |
| English words defined with "voluble": Gilbbery ♦ rap ♦ Speechful ♦ Tonguy ♦ Volubile. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "voluble": Volute. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Voluble" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (fickle, voluble). |
| "Voluble" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Voluble" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "voluble": voluble stem. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
voluble | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "voluble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjuhëbrisk (sharp tongued), fjalëshumë (garrulous, loquacious, talkative, verbose, windy, wordy). (various references) | |
Arabic | فصيح (eloquent, fluent, well spoken), لفاف (gyratory), سلس (be smooth, cursive, easy, fluent, fluid, glib, liquid), ذرب, دوار (daze, dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, vertigo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увивен (repent), словоохотлив (chatty, garrulous, lengthy, talkative), речовит, бъбрив (chatty, garrulous, gassy, gossipy, long winded, loquacious, mouthy, talkative), приказлив (gossipy, long-tongued, loquacious, talkative). (various references) | |
Czech | výřeèný (well spoken), mnohoslovný, mnohomluvný (long winded, talkative, verbose, wordy), hbitý (agile, deft, light-heeled, nimble, prompt, sprightly, swift), řeèný (garrulous). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرحرف (Blowhard, Chatty, Garrulous, Loquacious, Outspoken, Rattletrap, Talkative), چرب ونرم (Sleek, Unctuous), سلیس (Easy, Fluent, Glib, Liquid, Smooth, Versatile), خوش زبان , روان (Cursive, Easy, Fluent, Ghost, Glib, Handy, Liquid, Psyche, Smooth, Spirit, Versatile). (various references) | |
Finnish | kielevä (garrulous, glib). (various references) | |
French | volubile, loquace. (various references) | |
German | redselig (loquacious, talkative, verbose), gewandt (able, adroit, adroitly, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, deftly, dexterous, dexterously, fluently, glib, glibly, handily, keen, neat, neatly, nimble, proficient, ready, skilful, skilled, skillful, skillfully, urbane, urbanely, versa, versus, volubly), geläufig (accustomed, common, current, customary, easy, facile, familiar, fluent, free, prevalent, smooth, unchecked, used to, usual, volubly, wonted). (various references) | |
Greek | πολύλογοσ (chatty, loquacious, talkative, verbalizer, verbose, wordy), ευφραδήσ (fluent, glib, sleeker). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ר"וט (fluent, furnishing, furniture). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szóbő (copious, wordy), pergő (whirling), beszédes (affable, chatty, communicative, conversational, expansive, loquacious, talkative, talking, yakky), bõbeszédû (garrulous, long winded, loquacious, talkative, tattler, verbose, wordy), bőbeszédű (garrulous, glib, long-winded, redundant, talkative, wordy). (various references) | |
Italian | rampicante (clambering, climber, climbing, creeping, rambling, reptant, scrambling), loquace (chattily, conversational, eloquent, Gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 口八丁 (eloquent), 口 実 (talkative). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くちまめ (talkative), くちはっちょう (eloquent). (various references) | |
Manx | pleiteilagh, pleatagh (pleated), jesh-focklagh (eloquent), focklagh (declaratory, diffuse, expansive, garrulous, loquacious, oral, verbose, wordy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olublevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | volúvel (curling, desultory, flighty, glib, light-minded, mutable, versatile), loquaz (chatty, curling, garrulous, glib, loquacious, mouthy, verbose), fluente (curling, flowing, fluent, glib). (various references) | |
Romanian | volubil (fluent, glib, glibly), locvace, limbut (chatterbox, Gabby, garrulous, long-tongued, talkative), guraliv (flippant, garrulous, long-tongued, mouthy, talkative), comunicativ (catching, communicative, conversable, expansive, social, talkative). (various references) | |
Russian | говорливый (loquacious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nestalan (changeable, erratic, fickle, fleeting, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, shifty, skittish, transient, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, volatile), govorljiv (communicable, copious, garrulous, long winded, loquacious, talkative, wordy). (various references) | |
Spanish | voluble (fickle), locuaz (chatty, conversational, gabble, loquacious, talkative). (various references) | |
Swedish | munvig. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarmaşık (climber, creeper, Ivy, twiner), konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, glib, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal), geveze (babbler, blab, chatterer, chattering, chatty, gabbler, Gabby, garrulous, gasbag, gossipy, gushing, gushy, indiscreet, loquacious, mouthy, Prater, prattler, rattlebrain, rattle-pated, talkative, talky, windbag, windjammer), dilli (glib, loquacious, talkative, tongued), akıcı konuşan, akıcı (diffluent, facile, fastmoving, flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, mellifluous, runny, smooth, speaking, torrential), çenebaz (chatterbox, garrulous, prattler, roisterer, talkative). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гладкий (glabrous, glace, lubricious, napless, nonstriated, obese, pursy, silken, smooth-faced, unruffled, waveless), непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, weathercock), балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, conversational, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, leaky, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, newsy, talkative, well spoken, windy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | liến thoắng (glibly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | volubilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "voluble": volubleness, volublenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Voluble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: valuble, voluable, volubil, vopluble, voulle, vuluble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "voluble" (pronounced vÄ"lyubul) |
| 7 | -Ä" l y u b u l | soluble, insoluble. |
| 6 | -l y u b u l | invaluable. |
| 4 | -u b u l | incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, culpable, curable, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, digestible, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immiscible, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, solvable, spendable, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intolerable, intractable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, punishable, questionable, quotable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, tunable, typeable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable. |
| 3 | -b u l | able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-l-o-u-v" | |
-1 letter: boulle, lobule. | |
-2 letters: boule, ovule. | |
-3 letters: bell, blue, bole, boll, bull, levo, lobe, love, lube, vole. | |
-4 letters: bel, ell, leu, lev, lob, luv, obe, ole, voe. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-l-o-u-v" | |
+2 letters: unlovable. | |
+3 letters: unsolvable. | |
+4 letters: volubleness. | |
+5 letters: unresolvable, volubilities. | |
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