Synonyms for glib
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Facile — artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued
facile, voluble, suave, smooth, fluent, ready, bland, smooth-tongued, smooth-spoken, silver-tongued informal, oily
3. Flippant
Definitions
- adj. 1
Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
- adj. 2
Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- adj. 3
Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
Related words
- Word family
- glibertarian glibly glibness
Example sentences
- bland This soup is somehow bland. Maybe add more salt...?
- suave Yanni is extremely suave and disarming.
- facile The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- voluble Despite his voluble nature, Tom rarely reveals anything personal.
- flippant Her flippant attitude won't get her hired.
- slippery The way, sodden with rain, was extremely slippery.
By length
- 3 letters
- pat1
- 4 letters
- oily2
- 5 letters
- ready2, slick1, bland1, suave1
- 6 letters
- smooth1, fluent2, facile2
- 7 letters
- voluble3
- 8 letters
- slippery3, flippant2
- 9 letters
- plausible3, talkative3
- 11 letters
- superficial4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oily2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- désinvolte
- Català
- desimbolt