adjective
- moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
- easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
- affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.
adjective
- easy to perform or achieve
- working or moving easily or smoothly
- without depth; superficiala facile solution
- archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing
late 15c., from Middle French facile “easy,” from Latin facilis “easy to do” and, of persons, “pliant, courteous,” from facere “to do” (see factitious).