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Meaning of 'facile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Facile [ a.]
- Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
- Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
- Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
- Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
- Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

Meaning of 'facile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . facile [ s]
Meaning (1):
- performing adroitly and without effort
Example in sentence:
  • a facile hand
Meaning (2):
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
Example in sentence:
  • a slick advertising campaign;
  • it was a neat plan, but bound to fail;
  • too facile a solution for so complex a problem
Meaning (3):
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
Example in sentence:
  • able to dazzle with his facile tongue;
  • silver speech

Nearby Words:

fac facade face faced facet facete faceted facetiae faceting facetious

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