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facile
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of FACILE
[more facile; most facile] formal
1
disapproving : too simple : not showing enough thought or effort轻率而浅薄的；不动脑筋的
- a facile explanation随口的解释
- This problem needs more than just a facile solution.这个问题需要深入解决，随便对付一下是不行的。
2
always used before a noun, disapproving : done or achieved in a way that is too easy轻易做到的；容易得到的
- a facile [=effortless] victory轻而易举的胜利
3
always used before a noun, chiefly US, approving : working, moving, or performing well and very easily熟练的；敏捷的；流畅的
- He is a wonderfully facile writer.他是一位文笔极为流畅的作家。
— facilely
adverb
1
(2)
b
: used or comprehended with ease
c
: readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth
Did you know?
Facile comes from the Latin facilis, meaning "easy," and facere, "to make or do." The adjective can mean "easy" or "easily done," as befits its Latin roots, but it now often adds the meaning of undue haste or shallowness, as in "facile answers to complex questions."
Synonyms
Example Sentences
But in the less palmy days of their marriage and the final years of his life, Lennon produced (with Yoko's help) shallow, facile recordings that cannibalized his early work. 
Francine Prose, The Lives of the Muses, 2002 Melville shrank from atheism, and from all facile theisms. John Updike, Hugging the Shore, (1983) 1984 … I saw that my old enemy was dead, Amy [Lowell], noble Amy. How I despised myself then for my facile self-pity and for my failure to die—how she seemed to have worsted me once again. Conrad Aiken 14 May 1925, in Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, 1978 This problem needs more than just a facile solution. He is a wonderfully facile writer.
Francine Prose, The Lives of the Muses, 2002 Melville shrank from atheism, and from all facile theisms. John Updike, Hugging the Shore, (1983) 1984 … I saw that my old enemy was dead, Amy [Lowell], noble Amy. How I despised myself then for my facile self-pity and for my failure to die—how she seemed to have worsted me once again. Conrad Aiken 14 May 1925, in Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, 1978 This problem needs more than just a facile solution. He is a wonderfully facile writer. Recent Examples on the Web It’s not just the superficial depiction of Louis’s condition, or the facile depiction of racial dynamics, although those factors don’t help. Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022 But Ligon is too subtle and grown-up to be making facile propaganda statements. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 Chef Michael Fusano, out of Southern California, has a facile hand with various techniques, which means his cheese-rich gougères ($10) puffed up, crisp and oozing a Comté espuma are irresistible. John Mariani, Forbes, 25 July 2022 But the Kings, especially Robert, bridled at creators who adopted more facile strategies—blandly inclusive casting and writing designed to uplift rather than to interrogate. Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 The brief’s argument that FIFRA does not expressly preempt state-law liability claims is a straight rehash of the Ninth Circuit’s flawed, facile reasoning in Hardeman. Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes, 1 June 2022 In a lecturous speech delivered Thursday at Stanford University, the 44th president succeeded in the facile task of diagnosing the cause and effect of our poisonous social media ecosystem. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022 Until then, the musical, a facile, satirical stage treatment of a far better movie, bounces from one insincere interlude to the next, doling out bits of exposition without establishing any compelling rationale to feel for its characters. Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 Biden more than anyone should realize that the facile belief that Donald Trump or other Republicans had it within their power to shut down the pandemic at any point was partisan opportunism and tripe. Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Dec. 2021 See More
Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022 But Ligon is too subtle and grown-up to be making facile propaganda statements. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 Chef Michael Fusano, out of Southern California, has a facile hand with various techniques, which means his cheese-rich gougères ($10) puffed up, crisp and oozing a Comté espuma are irresistible. John Mariani, Forbes, 25 July 2022 But the Kings, especially Robert, bridled at creators who adopted more facile strategies—blandly inclusive casting and writing designed to uplift rather than to interrogate. Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 The brief’s argument that FIFRA does not expressly preempt state-law liability claims is a straight rehash of the Ninth Circuit’s flawed, facile reasoning in Hardeman. Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes, 1 June 2022 In a lecturous speech delivered Thursday at Stanford University, the 44th president succeeded in the facile task of diagnosing the cause and effect of our poisonous social media ecosystem. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022 Until then, the musical, a facile, satirical stage treatment of a far better movie, bounces from one insincere interlude to the next, doling out bits of exposition without establishing any compelling rationale to feel for its characters. Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 Biden more than anyone should realize that the facile belief that Donald Trump or other Republicans had it within their power to shut down the pandemic at any point was partisan opportunism and tripe. Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin facilis "easy, accommodating, nimble," from fac-, stem of facere "to make, bring about, perform, do" + -ilis -ile entry 1 — more at fact
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)
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