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facile
[ fas-ilor, especially British, -ahyl ]
adjective
- 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.
Synonyms: superficial
- easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
- affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced:
a facile temperament; facile people.
facile
/ ˈfæsaɪl /
adjective
- easy to perform or achieve
- working or moving easily or smoothly
- without depth; superficial
a facile solution
- archaic.relaxed in manner; easygoing
Derived Forms
- ˈfacileness, noun
- ˈfacilely, adverb
Other Words From
- facile·ly adverb
- facile·ness noun
- over·facile adjective
- over·facile·ly adverb
- un·facile adjective
- un·facile·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of facile1
Example Sentences
If Trump’s first term is any indicator, the next four years will be an unmitigated mess of infighting, corruption, revolving door staff, facile demands and fragile egotism.
It can seem a little facile, as it often does when you analyze the art in terms of the life, but it’s also fairly persuasive.
Not because it hasn’t sprung from a sandbox, but because it’s such a facile and specious argument: Why, Trump demands, hasn’t Harris already accomplished all that she is promising on the campaign trail?
However, the first season of “House of the Dragon” doesn’t as easily lend itself to facile parallels.
“Ezra” could easily tip into melodrama, but Goldwyn sidesteps that with a rather facile ending, seemingly skipping a story beat in the denouement.
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