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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble.
  2. adj. Mentally quick or alert: an agile mind.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion; apt or ready to move; brisk; active: said of the mind as well as of the body.
  2. Synonyms Nimble, Agile (see nimble), quick, lively, alert, supple, spry.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
  2. adj. computing Of or relating to Agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. mentally quick
  2. adj. moving quickly and lightly

Etymologies

  1. From French agile, from Latin agilis ("agile, nimble"), from agō ("do, act; move"). See agent. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Latin agilis, from agere, to drive, do; see ag- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Throwing the term agile into any title and leading statement is fodder for dissenting options.”

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  • “- "Ok, so you don't like the term agile … but I'm more than happy to use it to describe what I see is way forward for GIS mapping.”

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  • “We decide to use the term agile to describe this new breed of, setting out the values and principles of these agile processes.”

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  • “It's closely related to what they call agile (or rapid) program development.”

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  • “I was only challenging the Blogger to his "Agile Mapping" title and the first line of information that suggested that with this example we were to conclude "agile mapping is where we need to be" … Throwing the term agile into any title and leading statement is fodder for dissenting options.”

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  • “Another level could be called "agile big data," whose concern is solving a different class of problems and allows more experimentation.”

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  • “The terms agile or waterfall tend to be used rather than any mention of Toyota (although I am aware of one source that talks about kanban software development) but the concepts of managing by walking around, standardized work, the worker stopping the assembly line, the extended supplier community supplying parts just in time and so forth sounds a lot like community forums, rapid application development,”

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  • “He is the guy they think of when they used the word agile - responsive, adaptable to new requirements.”

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  • “And I thought it was worth mentioning that General Franks used the word "agile" -- am I hearing the sirens going off there?”

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  • “Unless you’re equating premature release with agile, which shouldn’t be the case unless agile is poorly implemented (which, unfortunately, it frequently is).”

    Slow, steady and iterative wins the race | FactoryCity

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lively
  1. brisk
  1. alert
  1. quick
  1. nimble
  1. active

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘agile’

  1. intelligent
  1. active

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. nimble
  2. lithe
  3. resourceful
  1. flexible
  2. robust
  3. dexterous
  1. muscular
  2. energetic
  3. inventive
  1. graceful
  2. athletic
  3. shrewd
  1. alert
  2. skillful
  3. good-looking
  1. hardy

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. fragile

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. agil
  2. agility
  3. tachinidæ
  4. wight
  5. bush baby
  6. shad-frog
  7. swank
  8. rice rat
  9. cow pony
  10. yare
  11. rock wallaby
  1. klipspringer
  2. agilely
  3. agileness
  4. deliver
  5. gainly
  6. gazellinæ
  7. mongoose
  8. nimble
  9. withy
  10. volant
  11. whiptail
  1. whiptail lizard
  2. agile
  3. chamois
  4. loose-jointed
  5. active
  6. oryzomys palustris
  7. paternoster
  8. polo pony
  9. scincid
  10. scincid lizard
  11. skink
  1. fast
  2. dasyprocta aguti
  3. deinonychus
  4. galago
  5. genetta genetta
  6. Ibizan hound
  7. ibizan podenco
  8. mangabey
  9. marten
  10. marten cat
  11. nimbly
  1. agouti
  2. bandicoot
  3. caprine animal
  4. genet
  5. goat
  6. quick
  7. ungka-puti
  8. whisk
  9. wou-wou
  10. activity
  11. alert
  1. dexterous
  2. light
  3. roedeer
  4. springe

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