Voluble vs Flippant - What's the difference?
voluble | flippant | Related terms |
(of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.
* , Love's Labour's Lost , act 3, scene 1:
* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 19:
* 1904 , , The Sea Wolf , ch. 26:
Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.
* 1886 , , The Minister's Charge , ch. 6:
* 1910 , , "The Reticence of Lady Anne" in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches :
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 9:
Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.
* 1935 , , Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record , Peter Davies,
(botany) Twisting and turning like a vine.
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Voluble is a related term of flippant.
As adjectives the difference between voluble and flippant
is that voluble is (of a person or a manner of speaking) fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey while flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.voluble
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
- What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!
- But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble , prone to speech as I had never seen him before.
- [H]e heard the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble' remorse, and in ' voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy.
- As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.
- In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal.
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- Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.
Synonyms
* (easily rolling) steadyAntonyms
* (fluent) haltingflippant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
