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facil

facil is the obsolete spelling of facile.

Meaning of facile

Adjective

facile (comparative more facile, superlative most facile)

  1. (derogatory, usually) Easy; contemptibly easy.
    • […] as he that is benummed with cold, sits still shaking, that might relieve himselfe with a little exercise or stirring, doe they complaine, but will not use the facile and ready meanes to doe themselves good; […]1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for...
  2. (archaic) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
    • His facile disposition made him many friends.
  3. Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
    • Her writing was facile and articulate.
  4. Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
    • He arrived with a facile understanding of her works.
  5. Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
    • Decarboxylation of beta-keto acids is facile.

Forms of facil

comparativemore facil
superlativemost facil

Questions about facil

What is facil the obsolete spelling of?
Facil is the obsolete spelling of facile.

Words near facil in the dictionary

  1. faciendum
  2. facient
  3. facients
  4. facies
  5. facies Hippocratica
  6. facil
  7. facile
  8. facilely
  9. facileness
  10. faciliatory
  11. facilitate

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