glib
/ɡlɪb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.64 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
adj
Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
adj
Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
Example Sentences
- "glib answers"
- "A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin."
- "As history is raided, indeed raped, by identitarians and populists, glib judgments on the past become fodder for every tribal grievance."
- "Rather than elevating the prose, the rhymes feel glib and the sentiment vague, shorthand for an unspecified intensity: “They wanted things they couldn’t name; they wanted rest. They wanted change.”"
- "a sheet of glib ice"
- "a glib tongue"
Etymology
A shortening of either obsolete English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: glibberig
Usage
- Archaic
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Obsolete
- Slang