Glib

Definition: Glib

Glib

Adjective

1. Marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question".

2. Having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial".

3. Artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glib" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Slang in 1811

Synonyms: Glib

Facility

Manageable, wieldy; towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding, ductile; suant; pliant; (soft); glib, slippery; smooth; on friction wheels, on velvet.

Loquacity

Fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded; (diffuse).

Crosswords: Glib

Manx (fluent, garrulous, glib, pert), Serbo-Croatian (mire, ooze, silt, slime).

Funny is good, but don't be glib. And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

No glib remark (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

Books

• BIZ-BUZZ: The Glib Businessperson's Guide to Useful Euphemisms (reference)

• Coffeehouse Glib (reference)

• GLIB, a multi-device graphic library (reference)

• It Came from Weaver Five: Interviews With 20 Zany, Glib and Earnest Moviemakers in the Sf and Horror Traditions of the Thirties, Forties, Fifties and (reference)

• Larry Guest Lite: Glib Slants on Sports from the Orlando Sentinel's Award-Winning Columnist and Humorist (reference)

  (more book examples)

Expressions using "glib": a glib tongue ♦ he's very glib. Additional references.

Beginning with "glib": glib-tongued.

Albanian

i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered), brisk nga goja. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متحدث لبق, ‏سلس (be smooth, cursive, easy, fluent, fluid, liquid, voluble), ‏زلق اللسان, ‏عفوي (casual, spontaneous, unprompted, unrestrained), ‏طلق اللسان (eloquent, fluent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), готов (eager, fit, game, ready, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service, ripe, set, store, unhesitating), нагъл (bold, impertinent, impudent, insolent, rousing), многоречив, повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty). (various references)

Chinese 

能言善道. (various references)

Czech

plynný (fluent), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), nenucený (casual, easy, effortless, informal, nonchalant, relaxed, spontaneous, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unstudied), nabroušený. (various references)

Farsi 

چرب زبان , لیز (Slab, Slick, Slimy, Slipper, Slippery), لاقید (Indfferent, Jaunty, Slipshod, Thoughtless, Unconcerned), سلیس (Easy, Fluent, Liquid, Smooth, Versatile, Voluble), زبان دار, روان (Cursive, Easy, Fluent, Ghost, Handy, Liquid, Psyche, Smooth, Spirit, Versatile, Voluble). (various references)

Finnish

liukaskielinen, kielevä (garrulous, voluble). (various references)

French

qui a la parole facile, qui a du bagou, facile, désinvolte, délié, affilé. (various references)

German

glatt (smooth, unruffled, flat, glibby, plain, silky, sleek, slickly), gewandt (dexterous, adroit, deftly, deft, skillful, versa), geschmeidig (flexible, lissome, lithe, sleek, lissomely, lithely, supple), zungenfertig (eloquent, fluent), wortgewandt (eloquent, eloquently), schlagfertig (ready witted), aalglatt (slippery). (various references)

Greek 

ρέων (cursive, streamy), εύστροφος (agile), εύγλωττος (eloquent), ευχερής, ευφραδήσ (fluent, sleeker, voluble), ετοιμόλογοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

קל לשון. (various references)

Hungarian

sima beszédű, sima (calm, flat, glassy, glossy, plane, sleek), síkos (greasy, slippery), nagy dumájú, gördülékeny beszédű, folyékony beszédű, csúszós (greasy, slippery, sloppy), akadálytalan (expidite, free, unbound, unhampered, unhindered, unimpeded, untrammelled). (various references)

Indonesian

galir (agile, articulate, fluent, nimble, spry), fasih (eloquent, fluent, quick writted). (various references)

Italian

sciolto (melted), liscio (smooth, plain), fluente (flowing, fluent), facondo (chatty, eloquent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

口がうまい (smooth talker). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くちがうまい (cajoling, fair-spoken, honeymouthed, smooth talker, talking glibly). (various references)

Korean 

그럴 듯한. (various references)

Manx

glib (fluent, garrulous, pert). (various references)

Norwegian

glatt (even, flush, glossy, icy, lank), tungerapp. (various references)

Pig Latin

ibglay.(various references)

Portuguese

volúvel (curling, desultory, flighty, light-minded, mutable, versatile, voluble), verboso (circumlocutional, garrulous, gassy, hot-air, long-winded, prolix, verbose, wordy), suave (gentle, mild, soft, suave, tender), natural (natural), loquaz (chatty, curling, garrulous, loquacious, mouthy, verbose, voluble), lisonjeiro (candied, courtly, fawning, flattering, slick, smooth, sugary, wheedling), leve (light), fluente (curling, flowing, fluent, voluble). (various references)

Romanian

volubil (fluent, glibly, voluble), uşuratic (airily, airy, careless, carelessly, fast, feather-brained, flyaway, frail, light minded, light-mindedly, thoughtless, trifling, volatile), uşor (easily, easy, facile), neted şi lucios, lunecos (slippery), fluent (flowing, fluent, fluently, smooth), curgãtor (diffluent, flowing, fluent, fluently, round, running), care nu prezintã dificultate. (various references)

Russian 

бойкий (perky, pert). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gladak (even, fine, level, napless, sleeky, slick, smooth), klizav (lubricous, slick, sliding, slippery, slippy). (various references)

Spanish

poco sincero (disingenuous, insincere), insincero (insincere), fácil (easy, facile), elocuente (eloquent), de mucha labia. (various references)

Swedish

ledig (free, easy, leisured, vacant), flytande (floating, fluent, afloat, flowing, pouring). (various references)

Thai

คล่องแคล่ว (lissom, lissome, lively, sleek, slick, snappy). (various references)

Turkish

yarımyamalak (sloppy, superficial), konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal, voluble), kolayca söylenen, dilli (loquacious, talkative, tongued, voluble), dil döken, üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, loose, perfunctory, scratchy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, trifling), çevik (agile, brisk, dapper, fleet, light footed, limber, lissom, lissome, nimble, nippy, spry, swift, tripping, volant). (various references)

Ukrainian

слушний (opportune), говіркий (chatty, conversational, talking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhẹ nhàng (airily, gently, lightly, mildly, soft, toilless, tripping, trippingly, velvety), lém lỉnh (swift-tongued). (various references)

Welsh

rhugl (fluent, free), llithrig (fluent, slippery). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "glib": glibber, glibbest, glibly, glibness, glibnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Glib" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Galeb, galib, Gelib, gfi, gibb, giby, gii, gil, gilb, Gilbo, glab, Glaby, glaib, glav, gleb, gleeb, gleib, gli, glibb, glibe, glibt, gliby, glic, glid, glie, glif, glin, glio, glip, glit, glix, gllib, globb, Glsi, glub, Glubu, glyz, gnib, gpi, gpib, grib, Lgiu, Mlib, Ogilby. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: big, gib, lib.

-2 letters: bi, li.

+1 letter: bigly, bilge, bilgy.

+2 letters: baling, bilged, bilges, blight, bluing, gerbil, ghibli, giblet, gimbal, glibly, globin, goblin, lubing, oblige.

+3 letters: abigail, ablings, ambling, baggily, bailing, balding, balking, balling, bawling, beguile, belling, belting, belying, bilgier, bilging, bilking, billbug, billing, biltong, biology, birling, blaming, blaring, blawing, blazing, blights, blighty, blowing, blueing, bluings, bluming, boiling, bolling, bolting, bowling, bugling, bulgier, bulging, bulking, bulling, burling, butling, byrling, cabling, fabling, filibeg, gabling, galabia, garboil, gerbils, ghiblis, giblets, gilbert, gimbals, glibber, globing, globins, globoid, goblins, gribble, gumboil, ignoble, ignobly, lambing, legible, legibly, limbing, lobbing, mailbag, obliged, obligee, obliger, obliges, obligor, sibling, tabling.