About The Word Facile
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Facile Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Facile?
[adj] expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"
[adj] performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand" [adj] arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" Synonyms | Synonyms for Facile: articulate | easy | effortless | eloquent | fluent | silver | silver-tongued | smooth-spoken | superficial Related Terms | Find terms related to Facile: adaptable | adroit | apt | bendable | bending | biddable | bright | casual | clear | clever | compliant | cursory | cushy | deft | dexterous | dib | docile | ductile | easy | easy as pie | educable | effortless | elastic | elegant | extensible | extensile | fabricable | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | flowing | fluent | formable | formative | giving | glib | graceful | impressible | impressionable | instructable | intelligent | light | like putty | limber | lissome | lithe | lithesome | malleable | Mickey Mouse | moldable | motivated | nothing to it | painless | plain | plastic | pleasing | pliable | pliant | quick | ready | receptive | responsive | ripe for instruction | royal | schoolable | sensitive | sequacious | shallow | shapable | simple | simple as ABC | smooth | soft | springy | straightforward | submissive | superficial | supple | susceptible | teachable | thirsty for knowledge | tractable | tractile | trainable | tripping | unburdensome | uncomplicated | uncritical | untroublesome | voluble | whippy | willing | willowy | yielding See Also | Facile In Webster's Dictionary \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F.
facile. Srr {Fact}, and cf. {Faculty}.]
1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
or attainable with little labor.
Order . . . will render the work facile and
delightful. --Evelyn.
2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
readily mastered.
The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
--Milton.
3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
Jonson.
4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
fault; pliant; flexible.
Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost
Paradise, deceived by me. --Milton.
This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so
facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a
keeper on the king's highway. --Prof.
Wilson.
5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile-ly}, adv. --
{Fac"ile*ness}, n.
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