Found 2 items, similar to facile.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: facile
facile
adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth;
“too
facile a solution for so complex a problem”
2: performing adroitly and without effort;
“her easy grace”;
“a
facile hand” [syn:
easy]
3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;
“able to
dazzle with his facile tongue”;
“silver speech” [syn:
eloquent,
fluent,
silver,
silver-tongued,
smooth-spoken]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Facile
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.
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Order . . . will render the work facile and
delightful. --Evelyn.
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2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
readily mastered.
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The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
--Milton.
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3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
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I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
Jonson.
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4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
fault; pliant; flexible.
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Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve,
Lost Paradise, deceived by me. --Milton.
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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.
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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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