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

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.
      1913 webster

            order . . . will render the work facile and
            delightful.                           --evelyn.
      1913 webster

   2. easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
      readily mastered.
      1913 webster

            the facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
      austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
      1913 webster

            i meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --b.
                                                  jonson.
      1913 webster

   4. easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
      fault; pliant; flexible.
      1913 webster

            since adam, and his facile consort eve,
            lost paradise, deceived by me.        --milton.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   5. ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
      wields a facile pen. -- fac"ilely, adv. --
      fac"ileness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
fact faculty fac"ilely fac"ileness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
easy eloquent fluent silver silver-tongued smooth-spoken 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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

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
        182:121-160, apr 1989.
     
        1994-12-01
     
     
see also:
concurrent ml ecrc lt;http://www.ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.htmlgt; 

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