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facile

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand" [syn: easy ] expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The senator is known for making facile judgments on current issues. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A crude or facile narrative technique will inevitably fail to achieve the desired ideological objective. ▪ A fifth mistaken ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy. (from 15th c.) 2 (context now rare English) amiable, flexible, easy to get along with. (from 16th c.) 3 effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.). (from 17th c.) 4 lazy, simplistic ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "easy to do," from Middle French facile "easy," from Latin facilis "easy to do" and, of persons, "pliant, courteous, yielding," from facere "to do" (see factitious ). Usually now with depreciatory implication. Of persons, "easily led," from 1510s. ...

Usage examples of facile.

Cum propter longitudinem agminis minus facile omnia per se obire et, quid quoque loco faciendum esset, providere possent, iusserunt pronuntiare, ut impedimenta relinquerent atque in orbem consisterent.

Procumbunt omnibus Gallis ad pedes Bituriges, ne pulcherrimam prope totius Galliae urbem, quae praesidio et ornamento sit civitati, suis manibus succendere cogerentur: facile se loci natura defensuros dicunt, quod prope ex omnibus partibus flumine et palude circumdata unum habeat et perangustum aditum.

Cum in omnibus locis consumpta iam reliqua parte noctis pugnaretur, semperque hostibus spes victoriae redintegraretur, eo magis, quod deustos pluteos turrium videbant nec facile adire apertos ad auxiliandum animadvertebant, semperque ipsi recentes defessis succederent omnemque Galliae salutem in illo vestigio temporis positam arbitrarentur, accidit inspectantibus nobis quod dignum memoria visum praetereundum non existimavimus.

Romanorum manus tantis munitionibus distinetur nec facile pluribus locis occurrit.

Intanto uno degli agenti di cotesto sacerdozio camminava a capo basso attanagliato nei polsi da Orazio e da Attilio mentre Muzio apriva la via, non facile ad aprirsi, in mezzo a quella moltitudine.

Rather than being irritated by the absent-minded fashion in which his First Adviser routinely defeated him, Jiro felt pride that such a facile mind served the Anasati.

The trouble was that Kingman Markland, steel wire and lightning as he was, had never been able to keep his facile mind at anything.

Not for the first time since his arrival at Porterhouse, Sir Godber felt uneasy, aware, if only subliminally, that the facile assumptions about human nature upon which his liberal ideals were founded were somehow threatened by a devious scholasticism whose origins were less rational and more obscure than he preferred to think.

There are no naughty nuns of the libertine tradition here, and none of the facile anticlericalism which opponents of the Church regularly directed against the convent system.

Clearly some kind of demarcation had taken place in her mind, like his own facile identification of people by the floors on which they lived.

Vulcanico, facile a scavare e sufficientemente solido ed impermeabile da poter formare abitazioni sicure.

We therefore are still contriving, and that to the best of our cunning, to make this work most facile and easy to your lordships, and to us.

This is not to speak of tricks and manners which lend themselves to that facile elf, the caricaturist, but of a certain individual way of seeing and feeling.

Si preoccupavano della possibilità che un uomo uccidesse suo nonno, perché non comprendevano la veri­tà sulla Realtà, prendiamo un caso più probabile, e più facile da analizzare, e consideriamo l'uomo che durante i suoi viaggi nel tempo incontra se stesso.

Potrete dunque immaginare che, avendo ormai vissuto per quattro anni in Brasile, e avendo ormai cominciato a far fortuna coltivando la mia piantagione, non soltanto avevo imparato la lingua, ma stabilito una rete di amicizie e conoscenze tra gli altri coltivatori e i commercianti di San Salvatore, che era il nostro porto e che, conversando insieme a costoro, avevo spesso raccontato dei miei due viaggi lungo le coste della Guinea, del modo di commerciare coi negri di quel paese e di come fosse facile comperarvi, in cambio di perline, giocattoli, accette, coltelli, forbici, pezzi di vetro e altre inezie del genere, non solo polvere d'oro, spezie e denti di elefante, ma anche innumerevoli schiavi negri di cui c'era in Brasile grande necessità.