agile
Americanadjective
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quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe.
an agile leap.
- Antonyms:
- awkward
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an agile person.
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marked by an ability to think quickly; mentally acute or aware.
She's 95 and still very agile.
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noting or relating to a philosophy of product development and production intended to create and distribute batches of working products in a short period of time with subsequent batches planned in a cyclical schedule of improvement, production, and distribution: agile manufacturing;
agile software programming;
agile manufacturing;
agile teams.
noun
adjective
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quick in movement; nimble
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mentally quick or acute
Other Word Forms
- agilely adverb
- agileness noun
- agility noun
- unagile adjective
- unagilely adverb
Etymology
Origin of agile
First recorded in 1570–80; earlier agill, from Middle French agile “nimble” and Latin agilis “easily moved, moving easily,” equivalent to ag- (base of agere “to do, drive”) + -ilis -ile
Example Sentences
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Many consultants were calling for a breakup of the company into more agile offshoots.
They are agile and use motorbikes to move quickly cross the region's rough and rugged terrain.
From BBC
Ukrainian drone manufacturers have been churning out hundreds of thousands of inexpensive, agile quadcopters that rely on digital communications to find targets.
It’s trying to get our factories to think agile, think immediate.
Across the North Sea, smaller and more agile companies have been buying fields, he adds.
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