1400-1500French, Latinfacilis ‘easy to do’, from facere ‘to do, make’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
The senator is known for making facile judgments on current issues.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A crude or facile narrative technique will inevitably fail to achieve the desired ideological objective.
A fifth mistaken approach is the facile assertion that opponents are being inconsistent.
During a given project, the collaboratory notices and remembers which of us are good, even facile, at which tasks.
Every society must be protected from a too facile flow of thought.
It is facile to attribute all childhood problems to poor parenting or social circumstances.
It is facile to employ cost of living indices or indices of neo-natal mortality without knowing how the figures are calculated.
It muddles facile loathing of a parody bureaucracy with the great issues of statesmanship.
Munro never lets you get away with a facile, one-dimensional take.
1a facile remark, argument etc is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding: facile generalizations2[only before noun] formal a facile achievement or success has been obtained too easily and has no value: a facile victory—facilely adverb—facileness noun [uncountable]