facile
Use Facile in a sentence
ɪl adjective
1.
moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
2.
easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
3.
easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
4.
affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.
Origin:
1475–85; < Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac(ere) to do, make + -ilis -ile
1475–85; < Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac(ere) to do, make + -ilis -ile
Related forms
fac·ile·ly, adverb
fac·ile·ness, noun
o·ver·fac·ile, adjective
o·ver·fac·ile·ly, adverb
un·fac·ile, adjective
Synonyms
1. smooth, flowing, fluent; glib. 2. superficial. 3. bland, suave; urbane.
1. smooth, flowing, fluent; glib. 2. superficial. 3. bland, suave; urbane.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | easy to perform or achieve |
| 2. | working or moving easily or smoothly |
| 3. | without depth; superficial: a facile solution |
| 4. | archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing |
| [C15: from Latin facilis easy, from facere to do] | |
| 'facilely | |
| —adv | |
| 'facileness | |
| —n | |
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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | facile1 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | easily accomplished or attained; easy |
| Etymology: | Latin facilis 'easy to do' |
| Main Entry: | facile2 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | flowing; moving effortlessly |
| Etymology: | Latin facilis 'easy to do' |
| Main Entry: | facile3 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | affable and courteous; mild |
| Etymology: | Latin facilis 'easy to do' |
| Main Entry: | facile4 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | compliant, yielding; docile |
| Etymology: | Latin facilis 'easy to do' |
| Main Entry: | facile5 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | resourceful, quick; expert |
| Etymology: | Latin facilis 'easy to do' |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
facile
late 15c., from M.Fr. facile "easy," from L. facilis "easy to do" and, of persons, "pliant, courteous," from facere "to do" (see factitious). Facilitate is from 1610s.
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Computing Dictionary
Facile definition
languageA concurrent extension of ML from ECRC.
(http://ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.html).
["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional Programming", A. Giacalone et al, Intl J Parallel Prog 18(2):121-160, Apr 1989].
(1994-12-01)
Example sentences
The facts that they argue about are those for which they have easy, perhaps even facile, answers for.
Yet it would be facile to say for certain that economic or political policy has thus moved to the right.
Besides, the memory in the early years is more facile, because it is less burdened than in later years.
It offered facile answers to complex linguistic questions.
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