Synonyms 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.

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

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

   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

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

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

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   stupid, inactive, unintelligent

2. agile, nimbleadjective

   mentally quick

   "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

   Synonyms:
   nimble, spry, agile, quick

   Antonyms:
   inactive, unintelligent, stupid

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1. agileadjective

   Synonyms:
   lively, nimble, brisk, smart, active, quick, ready, prompt, alert, sprightly, lively, supple, SPRY, winged

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1. agileadjective

   Synonyms:
   nimble, spry, active, lively

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1. List of paraphrases for "agile":

   nimble, agility, flexible, versatile, racer

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How to use Agile in a sentence?

1. Tomas Gorny:

   As a data-driven company, we understand the importance of data for deep business insight and agile decision-making, nextiva Analytics provides critical data and analysis to foster growth in businesses of every size. Stakeholders can now view, analyze and act like never before and get exponentially more value out of the NextOS platform.

2. 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.

3. Alan Tonelson:

   CFIUS needs to get much smarter and more agile, regimes like China’s nowadays can access knowhow through multiple channels both direct and indirect. CFIUS’s mandate needs to be flexible enough to cover all those currently existing and new schemes as they emerge.

4. Sanjiv Kovil:

   When people around you change, moving from a very process-defined model to a much more agile model, it is definitely making a dent in everyone's thinking.

5. Susan Michie:

   Think about it as road safety -- we have to do our own risk assessment when crossing the road, for example, do we always cross the road just on the traffic lights or on zebra crossings, or do we occasionally cross it elsewhere ? If we do, we probably consider several things, such as how far away are the cars, what speed are they traveling at, are the roads wet, how agile am I ?