Definitions for facile

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facile fac·ile

Spelling: [fas-il or, esp. British, -ahyl]

IPA: /ˈfæs ɪl or, esp. British, -aɪl/

Facile is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in facile (acefil).

Definitions for facile

adjective

1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality:
2. easily done, performed, used, etc.:
3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced:

Origin of facile

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

Examples for facile

Real-world profilers have to be careful, and are, not to indulge in facile ethnic, racial or religious “profiling.”

If most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile.

This was his special gift and as usual in such cases he was not a facile writer.

So subsequent headlines made a facile connection with media violence.

But we should beware of the facile tradition of criticizing colleges, professors, and the young (or just mocking them).

A Latin tag came into my head about the facile descent into the abyss.

Mrs. Austen, in spite of her facile digestion, gagged at it.

Consequently the poisoners of the wells of truth had a facile task.

Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.

I cannot brush aside the problem by a facile reference to reincarnation.