facile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: facile	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for facile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
facile adj arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" Synonym(s): eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. --Evelyn. 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. --Milton. 3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B. Jonson. 4. 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. 5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile-ly}, adv. -- {Fac"ile*ness}, n.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)