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# voluble

«voluble» in Mova's school dictionary: **Talking a lot, quickly and easily, often with feeling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (voluble)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Talking a lot, quickly and easily, often with feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#m1)

2) Of speech: long, fast and full of words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal describing word for talkers. Toad in The Wind in the Willows is voluble — he never stops talking about himself. In Alice in Wonderland the Duchess and the Mock Turtle can be voluble. It tells the reader someone talks a great deal.

### examples

- Toad was voluble about his new motor car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#x1)
- My voluble aunt told us every detail of her holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#x2)
- The voluble guide never stopped talking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#x3)
- She became voluble when she was excited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#x4)
- He gave a voluble explanation that no one could follow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#x5)
- The parrot was voluble all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/#x6)

### note

Adjective, formal; adverb «volubly». Say VOL-yoo-bul. Similar: talkative, chatty. Not related to «volume» in meaning, though the root is shared (rolling).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «voluble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.