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Voluble vs Soluble - What's the difference?

voluble | soluble |

As adjectives the difference between voluble and soluble

is that voluble is fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey while soluble is able to be dissolved.

voluble

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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:
    • A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
  • * 1853 , , Villette , ch. 19:
    • What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!
  • * 1904 , , The Sea Wolf , ch. 26:
    • But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble , prone to speech as I had never seen him before.
  • Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.
  • * 1886 , , The Minister's Charge , ch. 6:
    • [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.
  • * 1910 , , "The Reticence of Lady Anne" in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches :
    • As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.
  • * 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 9:
    • In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal.
  • Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.
  • * 1935 , , Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record , Peter Davies, page 22:
    • Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.
  • (botany) Twisting and turning like a vine.

    • Synonyms

    * (easily rolling) steady

    Antonyms

    * (fluent) halting

    Related terms

    * volubility * volubleness

    soluble

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be dissolved.
    • Sugar is soluble in water.
  • Able to be solved or explained.
    • A mystery that is easily soluble .

    Synonyms

    * dissolvable

    Antonyms

    * (able to be dissolved) (l) * (able to be solved or explained) (l)

    Anagrams

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