Facile

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Facile \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
     made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F.
     facile. Srr {Fact}, and cf. {Faculty}.]
     1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
        or attainable with little labor.
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              Order . . . will render the work facile and
              delightful.                           --Evelyn.
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     2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
        readily mastered.
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              The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
                                                    --Milton.
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     3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
        austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
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              I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
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     4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
        fault; pliant; flexible.
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              Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve,
              Lost Paradise, deceived by me.        --Milton.
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              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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     5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
        wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile*ly}, adv. --
        {Fac"ile*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  facile
       adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too
              facile a solution for so complex a problem"
       2: performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a
          facile hand" [syn: {easy}]
       3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
          dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: {eloquent},
           {fluent}, {silver}, {silver-tongued}, {smooth-spoken}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "facile":
     Mickey Mouse, adaptable, adroit, apt, bendable, bending, biddable,
     bright, casual, clear, clever, compliant, cursory, cushy, deft,
     dexterous, dib, docile, ductile, easy, easy as pie, educable,
     effortless, elastic, elegant, extensible, extensile, fabricable,
     fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flowing, fluent, formable,
     formative, giving, glib, graceful, impressible, impressionable,
     instructable, intelligent, light, like putty, limber, lissome,
     lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, nothing to it,
     painless, plain, plastic, pleasing, pliable, pliant, quick, ready,
     receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, royal, schoolable,
     sensitive, sequacious, shallow, shapable, simple, simple as ABC,
     smooth, soft, springy, straightforward, submissive, superficial,
     supple, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable,
     tractile, trainable, tripping, unburdensome, uncomplicated,
     uncritical, untroublesome, voluble, whippy, willing, willowy,
     yielding
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Facile
       
           A {concurrent} extension of {ML} from {ECRC}.
       
          {(http://www.ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.html)}.
       
          ["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional
          Programming", A. Giacalone et al, Intl J Parallel Prog
          18(2):121-160, Apr 1989].
       
          (1994-12-01)