资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Glib \Glib\, a. [Compar. {Glibber}; superl. {Glibbest}.] [Prob.
fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig,
glib, slippery.]
1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity;
fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose
not. --Shak.
Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
资料来源 : WordNet®
glibber
See {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}]