facile.
Easy; contemptibly easy.
Meaning & usage
Easy; contemptibly easy.
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.
Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
He arrived with a facile understanding of her works.
Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
Decarboxylation of beta-keto acids is facile.
Where this word comes from
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 and Portuguese fácil (“easy”), Catalan fàcil, Romanian facil. First use appears c. 1484 in a translation by William Caxton.
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