facile
- (derogatory, usually) Easy; contemptibly easy.
- (archaic) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
- Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
- Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
- Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfæs.aɪl/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Middle French facile, from Latin facilis (“easy to do, easy, doable”), from Latin facere (“to do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”) Compare Spanish fácil (“easy”). First use appears c. 1484 in a translation by William Caxton.
smooth-spoken
easily done
apt to
liable to
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