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Facile

Facile Meaning & Definition
Facile Definition And Meaning

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

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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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