volubly

Also found in: Thesaurus.

Related to volubly: volubility

vol·u·ble

(vŏl′yə-bəl)

adj.

1. Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.

a. Turning easily on an axis; rotating.

b. Botany Twining or twisting: a voluble vine.

[Middle English, moving easily, from Old French, from Latin volūbilis, revolving, fluent, from volvere, to roll; see wel- in Indo-European roots.]

vol′u·bil′i·ty, vol′u·ble·ness n.

vol′u·bly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Adv.

volubly - in a chatty manner; "`when I was a girl,' she said chattily, `I used to ride a bicycle'"

chattily

Translations

loquacemente

volubly

[ˈvɒljʊblɪ] ADV [speak, talk] → locuazmente; [write] → prolijamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

volubly

adv → wortreich; to talk volubly → sehr redselig sein

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.

View in context

Micawber continued talking as volubly as he could; but not, I thought, without showing, by some marks of concern in his countenance, that he was sensible of sounds in the next room, as of Mrs.

View in context

The Frenchman then began chattering volubly, and the General supported him; but I recommended the former to read, for example, extracts from the memoirs of General Perovski, who, in

View in context

"The singing part of this organ comes off the wheels." He spoke volubly to the proprietor.

View in context

He did not talk volubly, but Alice thought what he did say was worth while.

View in context

Inspector Gilder had opened his mouth with serious intentions, but before he could speak the grotesque figure on the floor had gone on quite volubly.

View in context

When the servants had withdrawn, they began to talk for a while volubly but very low; then they went upstairs quietly, Mr.

View in context

The other assented with enthusiasm, enlarging volubly on the beauties of the situation.

View in context

She can express displeasure, volubly, in two or three languages; that's what it is to be intellectual.

View in context

As soon as his voice could carry he cursed him volubly.

View in context

In the darkness of the hallway Jimmie discerned a knot of women talking volubly. When he strode by they paid no attention to him.

View in context

After these secret scenes I chattered more than ever, going on volubly enough till one of our prodigious, palpable hushes occurred-- I can call them nothing else--the strange, dizzy lift or swim (I try for terms!) into a stillness, a pause of all life, that had nothing to do with the more or less noise that at the moment we might be engaged in making and that I could hear through any deepened exhilaration or quickened recitation or louder strum of the piano.