Agile \Ag"ile\, a. [F. agile, L. agilis, fr. agere to move. See
Agent.]
Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready
to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
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Shaking it with agile hand. --Cowper.
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Syn: Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "agile":
active, acute, adroit, alacritous, alert, alive, attentive, awake,
breakneck, bright, brisk, catty, dashing, deft, dexterous,
dextrous, dispatchful, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious,
express, fast, featly, fleet, flying, galloping, graceful,
hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, keen, light,
light of heel, light-footed, limber, lissome, lithe, lively,
mercurial, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, 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, 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, winged, zippy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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