01 a. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
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Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.“Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful.” — Evelyn.
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Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.“The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.” — Milton.
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Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.“I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet.” — B. Jonson.
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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.
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Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.