agile
23
3.7
- adjective
- /ˈædʒaɪl/
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ágil
- Your weapons are heavy and cumbersome, but you are light and agile.
How, how fast, how agile, how mobile, how explosive.
- How, how fast, how agile, how mobile, how explosive.
- They were too strong, too big, too fast, too agile.
- One is agile, another is little slow in his corners.
- Should this be something that the stuntman does or is the actor agile enough to, you know, to jump off the bike himself?
- We need fast, agile tanks, since big tanks aren't really protect against artillery anyway.
- He wasn't quite as agile as Lou Alcindor, but his elbows we're right about head height for me.
Examples
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Then he moved out onto the oak limb, agile as the siamang monkeys Ella had seen at the zoo.
Fiction book (2001) -
The rowers are best seen in all their agile splendor at the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda festival.
Academic text (2004) -
You look agile and perfect for this!
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However, it was a big, agile dog with a thick coat?
Fiction book (1992) -
She danced around her memories with the agile step of a young girl.
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Its lightweight sweptwing design makes it extremely maneuverable and agile.
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Wren fought next to him, quick and agile, the blade of the short sword flicking left and right.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Thomson's gazelles she favours are almost as fast and very agile.
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She'd rehearsed on it that afternoon and found it tuned, agile, and graced with its usual sonorous sound.
Fiction book (1999) -
The gymnast performed her routine with such agile movements that the audience was captivated.
Synonyms
183
1.0
Able to move fast and lightly
20
4.4
Able to move quickly and easily
8
5.3
Able to move quickly and lightly, often despite being old
7
4.1
Able to bend and move easily
4
4.8
Can move quickly and lightly like a dancer
1
4.2
Moving quickly and quietly with small graceful steps
1
4.8
Able to move the feet quickly and easily
Able to run very quickly on foot
Antonyms
How Agile
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word agile comes from the old Latin word agere meaning 'to do' or 'to move'. Think of the word act, which is from the same root; so agile describes someone who can move quickly and easily.