Thesaurus: facile

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1. a. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
2. a. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
3. a. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
4. a. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
5. a. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
6. adj. superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
7. adj. performing adroitly and without effort
8. adj. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
9. 1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. Evelyn. 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton. 3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. B. Jonson. 4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson. 5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- Fac"ile-ly, adv. -- Fac"ile*ness, n.
10. j:100 s. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth s. performing adroitly and without effort