Usually means: Artfully fluent, often superficially insincere.
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  1. glib: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glib: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glib: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glib: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glib: Vocabulary.com
  6. GLib, Glib, glib: Wordnik
  7. glib: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glib: Wiktionary
  9. glib: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glib: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glib: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glib, glib: Dictionary.com
  13. glib: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glib: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GLib, Glib: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glib: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glib: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glib: Rhymezone
  19. glib: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glib: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. glib: Free Dictionary
  22. glib: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. glib: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. glib: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. glib: Encyclopedia

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  1. GLIB: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glib: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See glibber as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
adjective:  (dated) Smooth or slippery.
adjective:  Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
adjective:  (US) Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
verb:  (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.
noun:  (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
verb:  (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

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