Get to know Facile better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like superficial or effortless.
Facile in a sentence
Facile meaning
- Easy; contemptibly easy.
- Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
- Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
Synonyms of Facile
Using Facile
- The main meaning on this page is: Easy; contemptibly easy. | Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with. | Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
- Useful related words include: superficial, effortless, eloquent, fluent.
- In the example corpus, facile often appears in combinations such as: to facile, facile at, too facile.
Context around Facile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Facile
- In this selection, "facile" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, price, completely, trifle, victory, answer and conservative stand out and add context to how "facile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a trifle facile and are often facile. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "facile" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with facile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I think this is a facile argument. (7 words)
Unfortunately, that insight was too facile to resist the lure of liberating heroes. (13 words)
The facile belief that all Brexiteers are racist while all Remainers are traitors. (13 words)
Jamaica’s ace female sprinter Shericka Jackson romped home to a facile victory in the women’s 200m final to complete a memorable Diamond League trophy sprint double inside Haywood Field at the University of Oregon on Sunday. (38 words)
That said, however, it would be facile for me to simply gloss over my friend’s apprehension with a possible Peter Obi presidency without allaying his fears of a plausible disintegration of Nigeria under his watch. (36 words)
Its facile dismissal of women’s labor force participation required correction, as did its delineation of their domestic labor as a remnant from precapitalist modes of production that had somehow survived into the capitalist present. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
However, the high price, facile CO poisoning, and low durability of Pt hamper the large-scale applications of PBCs, and thus noted the research team.
Jamaica’s ace female sprinter Shericka Jackson romped home to a facile victory in the women’s 200m final to complete a memorable Diamond League trophy sprint double inside Haywood Field at the University of Oregon on Sunday.
So quintessentially when BJP has no solutions, the most facile answer is to communalise and use it for its electoral gains as well.
That said, however, it would be facile for me to simply gloss over my friend’s apprehension with a possible Peter Obi presidency without allaying his fears of a plausible disintegration of Nigeria under his watch.
The A139 Pro wasn’t as facile at night but a bit of the cloudiness is from the San Francisco weather.
The comparison is not completely facile, because Red Priest behave, and interact with the audience, more like a rock group than a baroque ensemble.
An entertaining film, though once it’s clear what Baker’s doing, it all seems a trifle facile.
However the Lib Dem plan has been criticised as being ‘unbelievably facile’, Conservative candidate Ian Liddell-Grainger has claimed.
I think this is a facile argument.
She begins to fritz out like Quaid’s fat-lady suit in the movie “Total Recall” when asked anything beyond the absolutely facile.
Trainer Tony Peter saddles Almond Sea, a facile debut winner on Summer Cup Day, in Race 1, a Juvenile Plate for fillies over 1000m.
Unfortunately, that insight was too facile to resist the lure of liberating heroes.
Beyond its facile commentary on humanity’s impending overreliance on technology (we all saw remains hung up on determinism and free will.
If the movie’s points can be well taken, its rhetorical strategies are often facile.
Many political analysts in Tanzania have taken 2020 as some kind of watershed, the year that will clarify some of the nagging questions that have defied facile explanation or prediction.
No facile Obama-negotiated nuclear deal — or anything else — will stop them from becoming a nuclear power unless they are physically prevented from doing so by destroying their program.
This is an old-world, facile distinction with echoes of my undergraduate classes in Comparative Economic Systems in the 1960s, which contrasted Soviet-style planning and untrammelled laissez faire markets.
With so much ground to cover, the scenes’ shortness can feel unsatisfying and even occasionally facile.
Its facile dismissal of women’s labor force participation required correction, as did its delineation of their domestic labor as a remnant from precapitalist modes of production that had somehow survived into the capitalist present.
The facile belief that all Brexiteers are racist while all Remainers are traitors.
Common combinations with facile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to facile 2×
- facile at 2×
- too facile 2×
- its facile 2×
- this facile 2×