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facile 音标拼音: [f'æsəl] a. 温和的,容易的,灵巧的 温和的,容易的,灵巧的 facile adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; " too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; " a facile hand" 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; " able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; " silver speech" [ synonym: { eloquent}, { facile}, { fluent}, { silver}, { silver- tongued}, { smooth- spoken}] Facile \ Fac" ile\ a. [ L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F. facile. Srr { Fact}, and cf. { Faculty}.] 1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. [ 1913 Webster] Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. [ 1913 Webster] The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. [ 1913 Webster] I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. [ 1913 Webster] Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king' s highway. -- Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- { Fac" ile* ly}, adv. -- { Fac" ile* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 95 Moby Thesaurus words for " facile": Mickey Mouse, adaptable, adroit, apt, bendable, bending, biddable, bright, casual, clear, clever, compliant, cursory, cushy, deft, dexterous, dib, docile, ductile, easy, easy as pie, educable, effortless, elastic, elegant, extensible, extensile, fabricable, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flowing, fluent, formable, formative, giving, glib, graceful, impressible, impressionable, instructable, intelligent, light, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, nothing to it, painless, plain, plastic, pleasing, pliable, pliant, quick, ready, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, royal, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shallow, shapable, simple, simple as ABC, smooth, soft, springy, straightforward, submissive, superficial, supple, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, tripping, unburdensome, uncomplicated, uncritical, untroublesome, voluble, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding |
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