Antonyms for agile
ˈædʒ əl, -aɪlag·ile

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1. agileadjective

   Synonyms:
   lively, brisk, alert, quick, nimble, active

2. agileadjective

   Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

   Synonyms:
   nimble, active, quick, alert, brisk, lively

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1. agile

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Synonyms:
   active, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. agile

   Antonyms:
   slow, heavy, awkward, inert, clumsy, bulky, ponderous, elephantine

   Synonyms:
   nimble, active, fleet, brisk, alert, featly, lithe, prompt, ready, quick, supple, nimble, swift, sprightly

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1. agile, nimble, quick, spryadjective

   moving quickly and lightly

   "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"

   Antonyms:
   stupid, inactive, unintelligent

   Synonyms:
   immediate, straightaway, warm, fast, speedy, spry, ready, nimble, quick, prompt, flying

2. agile, nimbleadjective

   mentally quick

   "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

   Antonyms:
   inactive, unintelligent, stupid

   Synonyms:
   nimble, spry, quick

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1. agileadjective

   Synonyms:
   nimble, spry, active, lively

How to use agile in a sentence?

1. Cindy Howells:

   This dinosaur was very small, it was an agile, meat eating creature with sharp teeth, sharp claws, able to move swiftly and grab its prey. We don't quite know what it would have eaten, but possibly small reptiles, small mammals, and possibly other dinosaurs as well. It was a bit like a medium sized dog, very slender, very long-tailed to help it balance as it moved.

2. Mynul Khan:

   Spurred by competitive demands for more agile organizations, the world of work is pivoting to a blended workforce.

3. Kaj Hed:

   As we move into the next phase of the Rovio story, we will be getting back to our entrepreneurial roots with the leaner, more agile organization that Pekka leaves us with.

4. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang:

   China respects the standards of the European Union and wants to find more avenues and agile methods to give financing support to big projects.

5. Daniel Robinson:

   Innovation is happening in small, agile startups such as Red 6 that are going at the speed of heat, then you have these companies that are so disruptive, making technology so quickly trying to mesh with the behemoth that is the Department of Defense that doesn't know how to fully plug these technologies into a largely bureaucratic system, and that leads to … conflict and to difficulty in terms of taking innovative technologies and getting them to the war fighter very, very quickly.

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