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[ fas-il or, especially British, -ahyl ] / ˈfæs ɪl or, especially British, -aɪl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR facile ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivemoving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people. Origin of facile1475–85; <Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac(ere) to do, make + -ilis-ile SYNONYMS FOR facile1 smooth, flowing, fluent; glib. 2 superficial. 3 bland, suave; urbane. SEE SYNONYMS FOR facile ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM facilefac·ile·ly, adverbfac·ile·ness, nouno·ver·fac·ile, adjectiveo·ver·fac·ile·ly, adverb un·fac·ile, adjectiveun·fac·ile·ly, adverb WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH facilefacile , facilitate, facility, felicitateWords nearby facilefacial tic, facial tissue, facial vein, -facient, facies, facile, facile princeps, facilis descensus Averno, facilitate, facilitation, facilitator Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for facileIf most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile. Compliments Are Nice, but Enough With the Cormac McCarthy Comparisons|William Giraldi|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Real-world profilers have to be careful, and are, not to indulge in facile ethnic, racial or religious “profiling.” Inside the Mind of an ISIS Jihadi|Jamie Dettmer|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young. A Ghostwriter Steps Out of the Shadows|Bill Morris|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST But we should beware of the facile tradition of criticizing colleges, professors, and the young (or just mocking them). The Elite American College Pile-On|Michael S. Roth|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So subsequent headlines made a facile connection with media violence. The Mad Shooter of Paris Is a ‘Natural Born Killer’|Christopher Dickey|November 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST She had never made the mistake of thinking that because his grief was facile it was any the less strong and real. Why Joan?|Eleanor Mercein Kelly The lay of the land and the lack of a powerful suzerain state to defend them made the Riverains facile prey. Riviera Towns|Herbert Adams Gibbons A great man dies not with so mean a jest, and Tyburn was untouched to mirth by Shotland's facile humour. A Book of Scoundrels|Charles Whibley (Then annoyed with their facile humiliation): Get up, sheep! Three Plays|Luigi Pirandello Then I am of a peculiar disposition—I own that—far from facile, without address, in some points eccentric.
British Dictionary definitions for facile
adjectiveeasy to perform or achieve working or moving easily or smoothly without depth; superficiala facile solution archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing Derived forms of facilefacilely, adverbfacileness, nounWord Origin for facileC15: from Latin facilis easy, from facere to do Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to facileglib, hasty, effortless, accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, flip, fluent, light, obvious, picnic, practiced, proficient |