facile

Meaning

Adjective

• Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.
• Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
• Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
• Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
• Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French facile, from Latin facilis ("easy to do, easy, doable"), from faciō. Compare Spanish fácil ("easy").