Facile

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy.
  • adjective. Working, acting, or done with ease and fluency: synonym: easy.
  • adjective. Arrived at or presented without due care, effort, or examination; superficial.
  • adjective. Pleasingly mild, as in disposition or manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Easy to be done, performed, or used; easy; not difficult.
  • Easy to be moved, removed, surmounted, or overcome.
  • Easy of access or converse; affable; not haughty, austere, or reserved.
  • Easily moved or persuaded to good or bad; pliable; flexible; yielding.
  • Ready; quick; dexterous: as, a facile artisan or artist; he wields a facile pen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
  • adjective. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
  • adjective. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
  • adjective. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
  • adjective. Ready; quick; expert
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth
  • adjective. performing adroitly and without effort
  • adjective. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
  • Word Usage
    "Leisure time is being stolen from us, language is degraded and commercialized in facile ways, and anything made for “serious human ends” is rendered irrelevant."
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    Basle  Brasil  Cassel  Castle  Kassel  
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    apt  childish  docile  easy  editio  
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