facile








adjective

  1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
  2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
  3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
  4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.

Latin.

  1. easily the first or best.

adjective

  1. easy to perform or achieve
  2. working or moving easily or smoothly
  3. without depth; superficiala facile solution
  4. archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing

noun

  1. an obvious leader
adj.

late 15c., from Middle French facile “easy,” from Latin facilis “easy to do” and, of persons, “pliant, courteous,” from facere “to do” (see factitious).

Latin, literally “easily first.” An acknowledged leader or chief.

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