Facile
Definition: easy, shallow, or simplistic
It’s often used to mean “overly simplistic.” Someone who has a “facile solution” is not thinking about the problem hard enough.
Why I Looked It Up
I’ve been seeing this word forever. I think that I thought it mean flexible?
I can’t remember exactly where I found it, but I kept the quote, so it much have been an apologetic of some kind:
Faith is too easy, too facile.
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I was in Montreal airport when I saw a sign which said, in French:
3 Etapes Faciles
The translation was:
3 Easy Steps
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From The Family:
A lifetime of lying to achieve his goals made the President facile in this crisis…
This was (obviously) about George H.W. or George W. Bush, though I can’t remember which one. Likely, the latter.
It’s an example of the “simplistic” definition of facile, rather than simple. To be facile means to be out of your depth.