Agile

//ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl//

Synonyms for "agile" (110 found)

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Closest matches (22)

active nimble acute adroit alacritous alert alive attentive awake breakneck bright brisk catty clever

Adjective(8 words)

nimble abuzz active alert animate brisk catlike darwinian

Strong matches (33)

dashing deft dexterous dextrous dispatchful double quick double-quick eagle-winged expeditious express fast featly fleet flying galloping graceful hair trigger hair-trigger hasty headlong

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hustling intelligent keen light light footed light of heel light-footed limber lissome lithe

Adjective(3 words)

dynamic effervescent hearty

Related words (55)

lively mercurial mobile neat-fingered neat-handed nifty nimble footed nimble-footed on the on the alert on the ball on the job peart precipitate prompt qui vive quick quick as lightning quick as thought rapid

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ready reckless resourceful running sharp sleepless smart snappy spanking speedy sprightly spry supple sure-footed swift tripping unblinking unnodding unsleeping unwinking volant wakeful wide awake wide-awake winged zippy

Adjective(6 words)

lively quick wanton wieldy youthful zestful

Adjective(3 words)

nimble quick spry

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

unagile

Synonyms

2 entries

active nimble

derived

9 entries

agile gibbon agile wallaby agilely agileness agilist agility big agile nonagile superagile

etymologically related_to

1 entries

agil

has context

1 entries

software engineering

is a

1 entries

artificial satellite

related to

14 entries

apt collaboration development faculty incremental iterative limb motion move quick ready software team technique

similar

3 entries

active intelligent

Translations

68 translations across 37 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

shkathët adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

εὐκίνητος adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Arabic

2 entries

خَفِيف اَلْحَرَكَة adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
رَشِيق adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Armenian

1 entries

ճարպիկ adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Bulgarian

3 entries

подвижен adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
пъргав adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
чевръст adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Catalan

1 entries

àgil adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

敏捷 adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Czech

4 entries

bystrý adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
hbitý adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
pohyblivý adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
svižný adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Danish

2 entries

adræt adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
behændig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Dutch

3 entries

behendig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
beweeglijk adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
lenig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Esperanto

1 entries

facilmova adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Finnish

1 entries

ketterä adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

French

1 entries

agile adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Galician

1 entries

áxil adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

German

3 entries

agil adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
behände adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
wendig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Hebrew

1 entries

זריז adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Irish

1 entries

lúfar adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Japanese

2 entries

すばしこい adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
敏捷な adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Latin

2 entries

agilis adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
pernix adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Latvian

4 entries

knašs adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
veikls adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
vingrs adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
ņiprs adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Malay

2 entries

lincah adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
tangkas adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Mapudungun

1 entries

trüf adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Māori

1 entries

kakama adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Norwegian

4 entries

behendig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
ledig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
smidig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
sprek adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Occitan

1 entries

agil adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Persian

4 entries

تَر و فرز adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
چابُک adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
چالاک adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
چُست adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Polish

2 entries

zręczny adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
zwinny adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Portuguese

1 entries

ágil adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Russian

4 entries

ги́бкий adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
ло́вкий adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
подви́жный adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
прово́рный adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

grad adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

gibak adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
гибак adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Spanish

1 entries

ágil adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Sudovian

1 entries

satrus adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Swedish

2 entries

smidig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)
vig adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Tagalog

1 entries

maliksi adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Thai

1 entries

ว่องไว adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Vietnamese

1 entries

nhanh nhẹn adj (having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Ruby on Rails is an agile development platform, which means we can respond to feedback from our customers very quickly.

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Tom is surprisingly agile.

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When I was young, I was more agile.

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I'm not as agile as I used to be.

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