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overfacile

overfacile adjective: excessively facile.

Adjective

overfacile (comparative more overfacile, superlative most overfacile)

  1. Excessively facile.
    • Vernant, Detienne, and Vidal-Naquet all comment upon the exclusion of women as a founding principle of Athens. Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions. She contends that misogyny is an "over-facile notion." The suffering of women in the birth of children was...2015, Roland A. Champagne, The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The Structuralists on Myth

Forms of overfacile

comparativemore overfacile
superlativemost overfacile

Origin of overfacile

From over- + facile.

Questions about overfacile

What does overfacile mean?
Overfacile means excessively facile.
What part of speech is overfacile?
Overfacile is an adjective.

Words near overfacile in the dictionary

  1. overeyes
  2. overeying
  3. overface
  4. overfaced
  5. overfaces
  6. overfacile
  7. overfacing
  8. overfactorization
  9. overfaint
  10. overfaithful
  11. overfaithfully

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