Facile

[Fac·ile]

If someone does something easily, or shows ease, it is described as facile in a good way, but if someone takes the easy way out and shows a lack of thought or care, it is facile in a bad way.

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Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

Adjective S.
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"

Adjective S.
performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand"

Adjective S.
arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

a.
Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

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Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

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Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

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Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.

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Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

Facile

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.

2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.

3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet.

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.

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.

5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- Fac"ile-ly, adv. -- Fac"ile*ness, n.

Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

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Usage Examples

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.