agile adj

1 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" [syn: nimble, quick, spry]

2 mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits" [syn: nimble]

English

Etymology

French agile, Latin agilis, from agere, "to act", "to move". See agent.

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ˈæʤ.aɪl/

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Adjective

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

Quotations

The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles

Synonyms

• active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.

Translations

Derived terms

• agility

Italian

Adjective

1. agile, nimble

Agile can refer to:

• Agility
• the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE)
• Agile Software Corporation, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions
• Agile software development, a family of software development methodologies
• Agile application, the convergence of Agile Software Development with Service Oriented Architecture
• Agile Communications, an Australian telecommunications company
• Agile (producer), part of Toronto-based rap group BrassMunk
• Agile, a member of the X-Hunters in the video game Mega Man X2
• Agile Property, a land developer in Guangdong Province, China
• AGILE, Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero, a spacecraft of the Italian Space Agency (ASI)
• AIM-95 Agile, an air-to-air missile

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