VOLUBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voluble mean? 

• VOLUBLE (adjective)
  The adjective VOLUBLE has 1 sense:

1. marked by a ready flow of speech

  Familiarity information: VOLUBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLUBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by a ready flow of speech

Context example:

she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations

Similar:

chatty; gabby; garrulous; loquacious; talkative; talky (full of trivial conversation)

Also:

communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)

prolix (tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length)

Antonym:

taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)

Derivation:

volubility (the quality of being facile in speech and writing)

 Context examples 

But my uncle was paying no attention whatever to the voluble self-reproaches of the landlord.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They became more voluble than ever.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"You were too voluble," she said.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, he added, as her ladyship broke in with a voluble protest, many and many as good a man who has gone to the sharks or the land-crabs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)