Easy; contemptibly easy.
[…] as he that is benummed with cold, sits still shaking, that might relieve himselfe with a little exercise or stirring, doe they complaine, but will not use the facile and ready meanes to doe themselves good; […]
Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
His facile disposition made him many friends.
Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
Her writing was facile and articulate.
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”). ...
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