Tuesday word: Facile
Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2024
Facile (adjective)
facile [ fas-il or, especially British, -ahyl ]
adjective
1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.
OTHER WORDS FROM FACILE
fac·ile·ly, adverb
fac·ile·ness, noun
o·ver·fac·ile, adjective
o·ver·fac·ile·ly, adverb
un·fac·ile, adjective
un·fac·ile·ly, adverb
Can be confused: facilitate, facility, felicitate.
WORDS RELATED TO FACILE
effortless, glib, hasty, accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, fast talk, flip, fluent, light, obvious, picnic
See synonyms for facile on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR FACILE
1. smooth, flowing, fluent; glib
2. superficial
3. bland, suave; urbane
ORIGIN: 1475-85; < Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac(ere) to do, make + -ilis-ile
HOW TO USE FACILE IN A SENTENCE
If most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile.
COMPLIMENTS ARE NICE, BUT ENOUGH WITH THE CORMAC MCCARTHY COMPARISONS | WILLIAM GIRALDI | OCTOBER 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I am picking them at random here, because evil is so damn facile.
ISIS AND BS | AMAL GHANDOUR | OCTOBER 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Real-world profilers have to be careful, and are, not to indulge in facile ethnic, racial or religious “profiling.”
INSIDE THE MIND OF AN ISIS JIHADI | JAMIE DETTMER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions-Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.
A GHOSTWRITER STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS | BILL MORRIS | SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But we should beware of the facile tradition of criticizing colleges, professors, and the young (or just mocking them).
THE ELITE AMERICAN COLLEGE PILE-ON | MICHAEL S. ROTH | SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Facile (adjective)
facile [ fas-il or, especially British, -ahyl ]
adjective
1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.
OTHER WORDS FROM FACILE
fac·ile·ly, adverb
fac·ile·ness, noun
o·ver·fac·ile, adjective
o·ver·fac·ile·ly, adverb
un·fac·ile, adjective
un·fac·ile·ly, adverb
Can be confused: facilitate, facility, felicitate.
WORDS RELATED TO FACILE
effortless, glib, hasty, accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, fast talk, flip, fluent, light, obvious, picnic
See synonyms for facile on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR FACILE
1. smooth, flowing, fluent; glib
2. superficial
3. bland, suave; urbane
ORIGIN: 1475-85; < Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac(ere) to do, make + -ilis-ile
HOW TO USE FACILE IN A SENTENCE
If most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile.
COMPLIMENTS ARE NICE, BUT ENOUGH WITH THE CORMAC MCCARTHY COMPARISONS | WILLIAM GIRALDI | OCTOBER 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I am picking them at random here, because evil is so damn facile.
ISIS AND BS | AMAL GHANDOUR | OCTOBER 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Real-world profilers have to be careful, and are, not to indulge in facile ethnic, racial or religious “profiling.”
INSIDE THE MIND OF AN ISIS JIHADI | JAMIE DETTMER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions-Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.
A GHOSTWRITER STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS | BILL MORRIS | SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But we should beware of the facile tradition of criticizing colleges, professors, and the young (or just mocking them).
THE ELITE AMERICAN COLLEGE PILE-ON | MICHAEL S. ROTH | SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST