What's the difference between facile and simplistic?

Facile


Definition:

  • (a.) Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
  • (a.) Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
  • (a.) Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
  • (a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
  • (a.) Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
  • (3) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (4) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
  • (5) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
  • (6) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (7) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
  • (8) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
  • (9) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
  • (10) Little is known about bacteremia in long-term care facilities.
  • (11) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
  • (12) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
  • (13) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
  • (14) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (15) The statistical method proved to be very strong in screening patients who should not be considered for community placement and in four of the five facilities was also strong in identifying appropriate outpatients.
  • (16) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
  • (17) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
  • (18) This virus was imported on multiple occasions from a Philippine supplier of cynomolgus macaques as a consequence of an epidemic of acute infections in the foreign holding facility.
  • (19) This test by virtue of its high sensitivity and the facilities in processing a large number of specimens, can prove to be useful in endemic areas for the recognition of asymptomatic malaria and screening of blood donors.
  • (20) Even as the Obama administration moves to deal with some of Guantánamo's most notorious captives, it faces tough challenges to closing the facility.

Simplistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (2) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (3) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
  • (4) While such speculation on how these spatially separated anomalies develop is probably simplistic, the concept of a mesodermal "malformation" spectrum is helpful in reminding the clinician to look for other mesodermal defects when one mesodermally derived defect or sequence is detected.
  • (5) Although technology for the study and assessment of velopharyngeal function has advanced, we continue to classify that function in simplistic categories: closure, borderline, and no closure.
  • (6) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
  • (7) "We find the conclusions in the PCC's November report simplistic and surprising.
  • (8) No simplistic cause-effect relationship can be ascribed to asbestos at the present time, and the answer to the question, "Does asbestos exposure cause cancer?"
  • (9) Many psychological reports reflected simplistic or erroneous concepts of medicine or ignored relevant medical data.
  • (10) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
  • (11) Then again, there’s the simplistic argument that if nobody turns up to the Olympics, the terrorists “win” … or whatever.
  • (12) So let's end the simplistic nonsense that leads us to focus only on concrete defences and destructive dredging, and instead take what is ultimately a more rational and integrated approach.
  • (13) Current textbooks still feature overly simplistic approaches to spinal cord function.
  • (14) The authors acknowledge that such an extensive review of so many relevant areas is necessarily not complete and often overly simplistic, but our goal is a "first approach" to a comprehensive understanding of the closed-loop (feedback) control problem for achieving movement in paralyzed skeletal muscle.
  • (15) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
  • (16) Their proposed EO really I think was too simplistic and misguided because it was identifying one’s nationality as being responsible for a potential terrorist act,” Brennan said.
  • (17) The report said: The twenty minute assessment for calculating biodiversity losses at a site, that has been proposed by Ministers, is also overly simplistic.
  • (18) Salmond's claims were challenged by UK ministers, who believe Salmond's analysis is far too simplistic.
  • (19) Accordingly, it is apparent that there is much unexplained variance in the pathophysiology of CHD and that various behaviors are not associated with the classic risk factors in a simplistic fashion.
  • (20) In the early years of perinatal medicine and heroic programs of saving premature infants, we have witnessed "halfway" technology practiced in an environment of morally simplistic ethics, law, and policy.

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