English Word Root: ile

to form adjectiv, denoting ability or capacity
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1 agile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick
2 docile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. obedient; ready and willing to be taught; easily managed or handled
3 ductile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. easily influenced; flexible; pliable
4 facile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; ready or fluent
5 febrile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. feverish; intense emotion or activity
6 fertile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. rich; fruitful; inventive; creative; intellectually productive
7 fragile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
8 futile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. useless; having no useful result; vain
9 hostile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. unfriendly and not liking something; showing the disposition of an enemy
10 imbecile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. without physical strength; feeble; impotent; helpless
11 immobile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. stationary; incapable of moving or of being moved
12 infantile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. childish; relating to infants
13 infertile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. unable to have children
14 mercantile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. trading; commercial; of or relating to trade or traders
15 mobile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. movable or not fixed; moving or walking around freely
16 nubile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable
17 prehensile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. capable of grasping or holding; having a keen intellect
18 puerile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. childish; belonging to childhood; immature
19 senile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. of or pertaining to old age
20 servile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. slavish; suitable to slave or servant;  relating to servitude or forced labor
21 sterile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. barren; infertile; incapable of reproducing; free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
22 tactile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. used for feeling; relating to a sense of touch; perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible
23 tensile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. capable of being stretched or extended; ductile
24 versatile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. having many talents; capable of working in many fields
25 vile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. worthless; mean; despicable; depraved by sin; hateful
26 virile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male
27 volatile   Speak   Example Sentences
a. tending to vary often or widely, as in price; inconstant or fickle; tending to violence