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facile

adjective

fac·​ile ˈfa-səl How to pronounce facile (audio)
1
a(1)
: easily accomplished or attained
a facile victory
(2)
: shallow, simplistic
I am not concerned … with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem T. S. Eliot
b
: used or comprehended with ease
c
: readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth
facile tears
2
archaic : mild or pleasing in manner or disposition
3
a
: ready, fluent
facile prose
b
: poised, assured
a facile lecturer
facilely adverb
facileness noun

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."

Choose the Right Synonym for facile

easy, facile, simple, light, effortless, smooth mean not demanding effort or involving difficulty.

easy is applicable either to persons or things imposing tasks or to activity required by such tasks.

an easy college course

facile often adds to easy the connotation of undue haste or shallowness.

facile answers to complex questions

simple stresses ease in understanding or dealing with because complication is absent.

a simple problem in arithmetic

light stresses freedom from what is burdensome.

a light teaching load

effortless stresses the appearance of ease and usually implies the prior attainment of artistry or expertness.

moving with effortless grace

smooth stresses the absence or removal of all difficulties, hardships, or obstacles.

a smooth ride

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 Aiken1978 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

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)

Time Traveler
The first known use of facile was in the 15th century

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