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Definition of facile : 1. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
2. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
3. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
4. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

Synonyms:

soft, ability, one-dimensional, obvious, surface, hands-down, simplistic, royal, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-tongued, apparent, argent, spry, ineffective, shallow, pointless, liquid, light, superficial, ready, useless, fluid, inefficient, brisk, futile, skin-deep, slick, painless, pathetic, snap, eloquent, downhill, articulate, defective, quick, silverish, faulty, purposeless, insincere, silvern, glib, silvery, cheap, worthless, smooth-spoken, words

fluent, effortless, simple, smooth, uncomplicated, easy

agile, cunning, crafty, dexterous, competent, practiced, capable, efficient, deft, handy, skilled, artful, talented, nimble, able, genius, ambidextrous, versatile, masterful, apt, adroit, accomplished, proficient, skillful, expert, sure-footed, clever, adept, crack

Usage examples:

• As water flows over water, so new schemes rolled upon new- sweeping away every momentary impression, and leaving the surface facile equally to receive and to forget. - "Ernest Maltravers, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
• Not even Granvelle held a more facile pen. - "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley.
• As the surface refinements of language were dying, so their faces had lost a certain facile play of expression. - "The Emigrant Trail", Geraldine Bonner.