agile
- adjective
- /ˈædʒaɪl/
- What practices do we need to adopt now in order to live longer, live stronger, be more agile and more cognitively fit as we age?
When I start a collection, I try to be very agile with the creative process.
- When I start a collection, I try to be very agile with the creative process.
- And so how can I do things that sit in my new sweet spot, which is not movement, but agile mind instead of agile body.
- What practices do we need to adopt now in order to live longer, live stronger, be more agile and more cognitively fit as we age?
- Isn't it interesting that worship or gratitude actually has a neurological effect of keeping you mentally agile and adaptive?
- And again, too, if you're mentally, you know, agile and healthy and doing great things, you're not sitting around eating fast food on a couch.
- You know that you're always re evaluating in real time that you have to be agile and adapt and change.
- How can we be more agile, more cognitively fit, and simply better than previously thought possible?
- Each decision anticipates or conjures the next in an agile, incomplete syntax.
- The one is grounded and skills developing and agile and that's the stepping into your values.
- And so it's just like a good lesson that to always, always be agile and to be very humble.
Examples
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There are things in life that you have to be agile about.
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We are talking about some really agile developers here.
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Therefore they are more agile than the huge companies.
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When I start a collection, I try to be very agile with the creative process.
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I have an agile mind.
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My mind was sharp, my body agile.
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We are the most agile society that's ever been created.
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A school that prepares students for the twenty-first century graduates young people who are agile problem solvers, capable of mapping their own learning.
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Indeed, the decisions made and actions taken this past year have contributed to ASME becoming an agile, resourceful, and world-class 21st-century organization.
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She is known for her agile thinking, which helps her solve problems quickly.
Synonyms
Able to understand and answer fast
Quick to think and find clever answers
Able to think and give smart fast answers
Antonyms
How Quick-thinking
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word agile comes from the old Latin word agere meaning 'to do' or 'to move'. Like the word act, it carries the idea of quick action, so agile also describes someone who can think and respond fast.