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If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'
Robert M. Gates

Meaning of "facile" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FACILE

From Latin facilis easy, from facere to do.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FACILE

facile  [ˈfæsaɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FACILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Facile is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FACILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of facile in the English dictionary

The first definition of facile in the dictionary is easy to perform or achieve. Other definition of facile is working or moving easily or smoothly. Facile is also without depth; superficial.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FACILE


abseil
ˈæbsaɪl
acyl
ˈeɪsaɪl
antimissile
ˌæntɪˈmɪsaɪl
docile
ˈdəʊsaɪl
domicile
ˈdɒmɪˌsaɪl
ensile
ɛnˈsaɪl
expansile
ɪkˈspænsaɪl
fissile
ˈfɪsaɪl
flexile
ˈflɛksaɪl
gracile
ˈɡræsaɪl
indocile
ɪnˈdəʊsaɪl
missile
ˈmɪsaɪl
overfacile
ˌəʊvəˈfæsaɪl
pensile
ˈpɛnsaɪl
prehensile
prɪˈhɛnsaɪl
reconcile
ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl
seil
saɪl
sessile
ˈsɛsaɪl
sile
saɪl
tensile
ˈtɛnsaɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FACILE

facial eczema
facial hair
facial index
facial nerve
facial scrub
facial wash
facially
facie
faciend
facies
facile princeps
facilely
facileness
facilitate
facilitation
facilitative
facilitator
facilitatory
facilities
facility

WORDS THAT END LIKE FACILE

ancile
automobile
bile
C.difficile
chile
Clostridium difficile
decile
difficile
file
imbecile
juvenile
meanwhile
mile
mobile
profile
smile
textile
tile
undocile
while

Synonyms and antonyms of facile in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FACILE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «facile» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of facile

Translation of «facile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FACILE

Find out the translation of facile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of facile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «facile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

轻便
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

facile
570 millions of speakers

English

facile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुगम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سطحي جدا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поверхностным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

facile
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সহজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

facile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mudah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

leicht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

容易な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

손쉬운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gampang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dể chịu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எளிதாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुलभ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kolay
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

facile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Facile
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поверхневим
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

facile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εύκολη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

facile
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

facile
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

facile
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of facile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FACILE»

The term «facile» is very widely used and occupies the 7.410 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FACILE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «facile» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «facile» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about facile

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7 QUOTES WITH «FACILE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word facile.
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Faith Baldwin
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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Umberto Eco
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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Jerry Garcia
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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Robert M. Gates
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'
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Robert Rauschenberg
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
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George Edward Woodberry
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
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Peter York
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FACILE»

Discover the use of facile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to facile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cure for Pain
Ty Jaden isn't what society needs.
N. M. Facile, 2012
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Across The Hall
Quinn moved to finish college close to his parents and has his own hurtful past and is looking forward to starting med school. Little do they know that what they each need is waiting across the hall.
NM Facile, 2010
3
Dueling Identities: The Christian Biker
Dueling Identities examines the contradictions facing the Christian biker in regard to conflicting culture norms and values, while exploring how the Christian biker identity is developed and maintained.
Doreen Anderson-Facile, 2007
4
Nouvelle methode abregee et facile pour reduire les routes ...
Pierre Le Mare. :5 _ Nom/elle Méthode' abrege'e comme étant chacun éloign'ez du Méridien де пае; gtez t5.' ming't'es ; la feconde сй pourle North-Nord-Ell.'` 'Sud - ьид-Одей , Nord-N'ord- Oüefl: , 8: Бидёдддёй, comme étant chacun éloignei ...
Pierre Le Mare, 1716
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Digiti Lingua Or the Most Compendious, Copious, Facile and ...
This volume shows how any two persons may be capable, in half an hour's time, to discourse together by their fingers only, and as well in the dark as the light.
Anonymous, Kessinger Publishing Company, 2003
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PASSION PHOTO - Macrophotographie facile
Ensuite tentez d'améliorer l'esthétique en pensant au fond avant de déclencher, plus facile avec des fleurs ou des objets inertes dans un premier temps. Pour ce faire n'hésitez pas à tourner autour du sujet tout en shootant, vous ferez alors ...
David LECARME
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Early Numeracy: Assessment for Teaching and Intervention
This section provides an overview of a typical child at the Facile Stage, that is at Stage 5 of the Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning. Table 4.7 sets out the stage and indicative levels for the counting-on child on the models pertaining to ...
Robert J Wright, Jim Martland, Ann K Stafford, 2006
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The short-hand of the future. Baily's facile short-hand tutor
W R. Baily. Entered at Stationer's Hall. Price 1 THE SHORT-HAND OF THE FUTURE. BAILY'S Facile S^ort-hand Tutor, BEING AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OF STENOGRAPHIC WRITING, OF GREAT SIMPLICITY, WHICH MAY BE EASILY ...
W R. Baily, 1885
9
L'architettura di Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola ridotta a facile ...
Vignola il (il). somma gloria del/'Autore di tempo in tempo fit'ora comparve”. ,Alle quali ho pensato io di aggiungere quena mia; e spero, che trovandrm', come è, del!' altre più utile a chi o per pro. fe.rsìane, o per diletto, (come ho fatto io) ...
Vignola il (il), 1810
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Baily's Facile Short-Hand Tutor; The Shorthand of the ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Baily R, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FACILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term facile is used in the context of the following news items.
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100 Bloody Acres review – facile Aussie backwaters horror
It's taken three years for this negligible Aussie splatterfest to get its one-weekend-only release; you wonder why anybody thought to rescue it. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Why the once-mighty music mag NME is going free
... creative music which comes dangerously close to the Orwellian mean for a facile, soulless music that would doubtless rule the airwaves and ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
3
Movie Listings for July 10-16
... the man himself, and quietly revealing of complexities in American life that lie much deeper than facile regional and ideological labels. (Scott). «New York Times, Jul 15»
4
Keidel: All-Star Snub Or Not, A Good Season From A-Rod Is No …
Assuming he's clean — not as facile as folks might think — then his stats and resurgence should be its own reward. And for those who can't ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
5
Column: Measuring a single sacrifice
We hadn't yet learned to say “I'm sorry for your loss” or the other facile formulas of ritual sympathy, but our stunned silence spoke more than our ... «Gloucester Daily Times, Jul 15»
6
Mother Canada: Reverent Memorial, or Monument to Profit and …
... and capacity for inspiring solemn reflection will have been irrevocably altered to promote tourism and facile interpretations of the past. To be ... «TheTyee.ca, Jul 15»
7
'Tap Forward' Showcases Contemporary Tap
In three excerpts from his “Variations,” interspersed throughout the night, he paired his facile, flowing style to Glenn Gould's recordings of ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
8
In the US, an old race problem in new clothes
... explained blacks' social standing as the result of their biological and moral inferiority, colour-blind racism avoids such facile arguments. «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
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Jeb Bush and His Brother's Wars
A facile means, certainly, of effecting “regime change,” this offer was summarily brushed aside. The need to keep Saddam Hussein in place ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
10
Lumiere lights up Newmarket
Richard Hannon feels Tupi could turn into a top-level horse after defying a penalty to run out a facile winner of the Hastings Direct Sir Henry ... «Racinguk.com - pure racing entertainment, Jul 15»

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