FACILE

facile. Facile, a. easy to be done flexible, pliant

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Fac″ile (?) a. [[L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F. facile. Srr Fact, and cf. Faculty.]] 1. 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. 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton. 3. 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. 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. 5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
— Fac″ile‐ly, adv. — Fac″ile‐ness, n.