单词 | facile |
释义 | fac·ile 1. a. < a facile victory > sometimes < the work is well-organized but the conclusions and interpretations are often unduly facile > < I am not concerned … with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem — T.S.Eliot > b. < the techniques of paper chromatography have provided facile means of separating complex organic mixtures > < the report proved to be surprisingly facile reading > c. of feelings, emotions, attitudes < sick of words and phrases and facile emotions and situations and insincerities — Rose Macaulay > < we must possess a peculiarly facile turn of mind when we can virtuously condemn the cruelties perpetrated in other countries, while … we avert our eyes from the cruelties we ourselves continue to condone — Farley Mowat > 2. a. archaic b. Scots law 3. a. archaic b. obsolete c. 4. < a man facile in expedients > < the most facile and prolific of humorists — Alfred Kreymborg > Synonyms: see easy |
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