Definitions for GLIB
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glibadjective

   marked by lack of intellectual depth

   "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"

2. glib, pat, slickadjective

   having only superficial plausibility

   "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"

3. glib, glib-tongued, smooth-tonguedadjective

   artfully persuasive in speech

   "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glibadjective

   Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

2. glibadjective

   Smooth or slippery.

3. glibadjective

   Artfully persuasive in nature.

4. Etymology: Probably modification of Low German glibberig (slippery).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GLIBadjective

   Etymology: from λείος. Stephen Skinner

   1. Smooth; slippery; so formed as to be easily moved.

   Liquid bodies have nothing to sustain their parts, nor any thing to cement them: the parts being glib and continually in motion, fall off from one another, which way soever gravity inclines them. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   Habbakkuk brought him a smooth strong rope, compactly twisted together, with a noose that slipt as glib as a birdcatcher’s gin. Arbuthnot.

   2. Smooth; voluble.

   I want that glib and oily art
   To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend,
   I’ll do’t before I speak. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   There was never so much glib nonsense put together in well sounding English. John Locke.

   Now Curl his shop from rubbish drains;
   Three genuine tomes of Swift’s remains:
   And then, to make them pass the glibber,
   Revis’d by Tibbald, Moore, and Cibber. Jonathan Swift.

   Be sure he’s a fine spoken man;
   Do but hear on the clergy how glib his tongue ran. Jonathan Swift.

2. Glibnoun

   They have another custom from the Scythians, the wearing of mantles and long glibs; which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Edmund Spenser on Ireland.

3. To Glibverb

   To castrate.

   Etymology: from the adjective.

   I’ll geld them all: fourteen they shall not see,
   To bring false generations; they are coheirs,
   And I had rather glib myself than they
   Should not produce fair issue. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GLib

   GLib is a bundle of three (formerly five) low-level system libraries written in C and developed mainly by GNOME. GLib's code was separated from GTK, so it can be used by software other than GNOME and has been developed in parallel ever since.

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1. glib

   Glib refers to being fluent and articulate in speaking or writing, often excessively and insincerely so. It suggests smoothness in communication that often insinuates superficiality or deceitfulness.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glib

   smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib

2. Glib

   speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech

3. Glibverb

   to make glib

4. Glibnoun

   a thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes

5. Glibverb

   to castrate; to geld; to emasculate

6. Etymology: [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]

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1. GLib

   GLib is a cross-platform software utility library that began as part of the GTK+ project. However, before releasing version 2 of GTK+, the project's developers decided to separate non-GUI-specific code from the GTK+ platform, thus creating GLib as a separate product. GLib was released as a separate library so other developers, those who did not make use of the GUI-related portions of GTK+, could make use of the non-GUI portions of the library without the overhead of depending on the entire GUI library. Since GLib is a cross-platform library, applications using it to interface with the operating system are usually portable across different operating systems without major changes.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glib

   glib, adj. moving easily: voluble.—v.i. to move freely.—adv. Glib′ly.—n. Glib′ness. [A contr. of Dut. glibberig, slippery.]

2. Glib

   glib, n. (Spens.) a bush of hair hanging over the eyes. [Gael., a lock of hair.]

3. Glib

   glib, v.t. (Shak.) to emasculate, to castrate. [Perh. an error for lib, to castrate.]

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1. GLIB

   What does GLIB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GLIB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of GLIB in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of GLIB in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of GLIB in a Sentence

1. Bill Clinton:

   It is not a time for easy answers, for glib answers, or one liners, or applause lines, those are all great, that is part of campaigning, but at the end of the day, we need a president who has both the experience and the understanding to deal with the complexity of the problems we face.

2. Donald Trump:

   It takes a lot more than being glib. She's not going to win, she got fired, and she ran for office and she lost in a landslide -- I don't see that as being necessarily great potential.

3. Donald Trump:

   It takes a lot more than being glib. She's not going to win, she got fired, and she ran for office and she lost in a landslide -- I don't see that at as being necessarily great potential.

4. Donald Trump:

   Ted is very glib, and he goes out and says, 'Well, I'm a natural born citizen,' the point is, you're not.

5. Peter Drucker:

   Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=GLIB
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Glib
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=GLIB
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glib
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GLIB
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=GLIB
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=GLIB