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Definitions for Facile

[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.
[5] easily the first or best.
[6] easy to perform or achieve
[7] working or moving easily or smoothly
[8] without depth; superficial a facile solution
[9] archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing
[10] an obvious leader

Words related to Facile

glib, hasty, effortless, accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, cursory, deft, dexterous, flip, fluent, light, obvious, picnic, practiced, proficient, pushover

Words nearby Facile

facial tic, facial tissue, facial vein, facialist, facies, facile, facile princeps, facilis descensus averno, facilitate, facilitation, facilitator

Origin of Facile

1475–85; < Latin facilis that can be done, easy, equivalent to fac(ere ) to do, make + -ilis -ile

Words that may be confused with Facile

facile, facilitate, facility, felicitate

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

Word origin for Facile

princepsliterally: easily first

Synonyms for 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, practiced, proficient, pushover, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble