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Fac·ile a.
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.
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