facile

Meaning

1. Easy; contemptibly easy.
2. Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
3. Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
4. Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
5. Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.

Hyphenated as

fac‧ile

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfæs.aɪl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French facile, from Latin facilis (“easy to do, easy, doable”), from Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō (“I 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.