Usually means: Easily achieved; effortless; superficial; simple.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. facile: Merriam-Webster
  2. facile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. facile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. facile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. facile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Facile, facile: Wordnik
  7. facile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. facile: Wiktionary
  9. facile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. facile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. facile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. facile: Dictionary.com
  13. facile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. facile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Facile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Facile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. facile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. facile: Rhymezone
  19. facile, facile, facile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. facile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. facile: FreeDictionary.org
  22. facile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. facile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Facile: World Wide Words
  25. facile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. facile: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Facile: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Facile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. facile: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See facilely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now usually derogatory) Easy; contemptibly easy.
adjective:  (now rare) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
adjective:  Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
adjective:  Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
adjective:  (chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.

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