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, nimble, quick, prompt, flying

   Antonyms:
   stupid, inactive, unintelligent

2. agile, nimbleadjective

   mentally quick

   "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

   Synonyms:
   nimble, spry, 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. 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.

2. Scott Gegenheimer:

   It's not about financial gain, (these) give us easier access to see what the new business models look like, they're more agile than a lot of the telecom operators. We don't have the time and skill sets to do this in house.

3. Alfred Hitchcock:

   There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

4. Lindsay Zanno:

   As one of the earliest and oldest crocodylomorphs, Carnufex was a far cry from living crocodiles. It was an agile, terrestrial predator that hunted on land, carnufex predates the group that living crocodiles belong to.

5. Mark Walsh:

   Our biggest strategic risk is not being able to change ahead of it, we are bound by internal process and decision-making … that leads us to believe we can take long periods of time to do things – that’s not the world we live in today. We have got to become more strategically agile in everything from education to training.