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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Glib (0.01006 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Glib.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: glib
fasih, galir
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: glib
glib
adj 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” [syn:
pat,
slick]
3: artfully persuasive in speech;
“a glib tongue”;
“a
smooth-tongued hypocrite” [syn:
glib-tongued,
smooth-tongued]
[also:
glibbest,
glibber]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Glib
Glib
\Glib\, v. t.
To make glib. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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Glib
\Glib\, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]
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The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long
glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging
down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
--Spenser.
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Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. --Southey.
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Glib
\Glib\, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld,
Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.]
To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Glib
\Glib\ (gl[i^]b), a. [Compar.
Glibber (gl[i^]b"b[~e]r);
superl.
Glibbest (gl[i^]b"b[e^]st).] [Prob. fr. D.
glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib,
slippery.]
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1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
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2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity;
fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
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I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not. --Shak.
Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
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