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facile

[fas-il, -ahyl]

adjective

  1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality.

    facile fingers; a facile mind.

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  2. easily done, performed, used, etc..

    a facile victory; a facile method.

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  3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.

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  4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced.

    a facile temperament; facile people.



facile

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adjective

  1. easy to perform or achieve

  2. working or moving easily or smoothly

  3. without depth; superficial

    a facile solution

  4. archaicÌýrelaxed in manner; easygoing

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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • facilely adverb
  • facileness noun
  • overfacile adjective
  • overfacilely adverb
  • unfacile adjective
  • unfacilely adverb
  • ˈ´Ú²¹³¦¾±±ô±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
  • ˈ´Ú²¹³¦¾±±ô±ð±ô²â adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of facile1

1475–85; < Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac ( ere ) to do, make + -ilis -ile
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of facile1

C15: from Latin facilis easy, from facere to do
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Example Sentences

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It would be facile and easy to argue that this level of emotion is characteristic of their “intimate male friendship†and their shared passion run amok.

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Italicized bits of conservative talk radio, which appear throughout, are repetitive and facile.

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There is a trope, favored by the politically facile, that government should operate more like a business.

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“U.S. healthcare in the twenty-first century is not facile, not efficient, and not at all patient-centered.â€

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A facile “Prophecy†reader might joke that the channel is substituting spaceships for dragons.

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