facile
1
7.5
- adjective
- /ˈfæsl/
- Formal
:
fácil
- So somehow or other we have to become very facile in going from waveforms to bits.
And to go to Memphis and have this experience where everything just feels so like facile by comparison.
- And to go to Memphis and have this experience where everything just feels so like facile by comparison.
- At that point, the most, you know, the most facile nuclear brain power was concentrated in Germany at that point.
Examples
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That is, precocious individuals are especially facile at knowing what steps to take in solving a given intellectual problem.
Academic text (2008) -
One must be facile in a number of disciplines to understand the science, which involves chemistry, physics, paleontology, geology, and so on.
Blog text (17) -
Some find this process easier and more facile than others.
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To succeed, teachers need to acquire and be facile with a variety of skills possibly unknown to them.
Academic text (1997) -
They are all facile technicians on their instruments and noted the importance of this for successful free improvisation.
Academic text (2015) -
Yet at Graz, he proved to be an extraordinarily facile and prolific scholar.
Academic text (1991) -
A wide variety of procedures is available, and the operator must be facile with a number of options for each clinical circumstance, particularly when comorbidity of function and structure exists.
Academic text (1997) -
With the emergence of electronic medical records, ACOs should become more facile at viewing their population as a whole and identifying trends across their panel's health (age, gender, race, chronic conditions).
Academic text (2013) -
But she recovered at measure forty-two, where we relaxed into a long series of simple notes played off the beat, notes that punctuated the main melody of the Unfinished, a sweet, facile tune carried now by the violins and violas.
Fiction book (2002) -
The athlete's facile movements made it look like he was gliding across the field.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not hard to do, understand, or achieve
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2.6
Done easily and smoothly without hard work
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6.1
Simple and relaxed, not difficult or serious
1
5.8
Having a calm, relaxed, and graceful way of moving or acting
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A simple idea about why something happened that misses important facts
How Easy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Facile comes from the Latin facilis meaning 'easy' and is related to facility, which means ease or skill. So if someone does a task in a facile way, they do it smoothly and 'with little effort'.