facile
moving, 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 facile
1Other words for facile
Other words from facile
- fac·ile·ly, adverb
- fac·ile·ness, noun
- o·ver·fac·ile, adjective
- o·ver·fac·ile·ly, adverb
- un·fac·ile, adjective
- un·fac·ile·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with facile
- facile , facilitate, facility, felicitate
Words Nearby facile
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How to use facile in a sentence
The facile conclusion to draw from all this is that teenagers shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near cars.
Elections experts say such patterns can be easily explained, but Byrne called such dismissals “facile bromides” that are not reassuring to him or millions of other Americans.
Inside the ‘shadow reality world’ promoting the lie that the presidential election was stolen | Rosalind Helderman, Emma Brown, Tom Hamburger, Josh Dawsey | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostIf 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 | THE DAILY BEASTI am picking them at random here, because evil is so damn facile.
Real-world profilers have to be careful, and are, not to indulge in facile ethnic, racial or religious “profiling.”
Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.
But we should beware of the facile tradition of criticizing colleges, professors, and the young (or just mocking them).
But he was a man of marked executive ability, and when occasion demanded he wielded a facile and ready pen.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnBut the notion may very well be of older date than this period of facile illustration.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanFor the second time I felt my facile invention sitting somewhat less easily on me.
In Accordance with the Evidence | Oliver OnionsIndeed, Chopin even found fault with the master where he is universally regarded as facile princeps.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksWherever you go you will hear, in tram or car, the facile gossip of literature.
American Sketches | Charles Whibley
British Dictionary definitions for facile
/ (ˈfæsaɪl) /
easy to perform or achieve
working or moving easily or smoothly
without depth; superficial: a facile solution
archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing
Origin of facile
1Derived forms of facile
- facilely, adverb
- facileness, noun
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