Facile

Antonyms for facile:

inarticulate, profound, hard, effortful, arduous, laborious, difficult.

Synonyms for facile:

Sense 1

smooth-tongued.

Sense 2

brisk, spry, glib, journalistic.

Sense 3

slick.

Sense 4

quick.

all (adjective)

slick.

articulate (adjective)

fluent.

easy; easily mastered (adjective)

deft, adept, quick, ready, skillful, slick, light, simple, shallow, glib, articulate, proficient, uncomplicated, fluent, smooth, effortless, accomplished, adroit, dexterous, superficial.

facile (adjective)

easy, smooth, simple, adroit, handy, deft, efficient, dexterous, fluent, effortless, uncomplicated.

skillful (adjective)

ambidextrous, capable, accomplished, clever, genius, handy, skillful, competent, versatile, adept, expert, agile, artful, efficient, able, masterful, Sure-footed, crafty, deft, talented, adroit, skilled, cunning, proficient, dexterous, nimble, apt.

Sense 2 (noun)

snap.

Sense 3 (noun)

quick, spry, brisk.

Sense 4 (noun)

slick, smooth-tongued, glib.

facile (noun)

silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, silver, eloquent, superficial, articulate, effortless, fluent, easy.

superficial (noun)

glib.

Usage examples for facile:

• He had never known anything so facile yet direct. - "Rose MacLeod", Alice Brown.
• It was a task, however, by no means so facile as we now conceive it. - "Lectures on The Science of Language", Max Müller.