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Another word for agile

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Adjective

  1. Moving or performing quickly, lightly, and easily

    See also:

    ability

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Another word for agile

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Synonym Study

  • Sprightly implies animation or vivacity and suggests lightheartedness
  • Spry suggests nimbleness or alacrity, esp. as displayed by vigorous elderly people
  • Quick implies rapidity and promptness, seldom indicating, out of context, the degree of skillfulness
  • Agile and nimble both imply rapidity, ease, and lightness of movement, agile emphasizing dexterity in the use of the limbs and nimble, deftness in the performance of some act
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Sentence Examples

  • She was unafraid and sure-footed, agile, and well-disciplined.

  • They climb with great facility, and are agile and graceful in their movements.

  • It is a clever, agile and powerful dog, extremely pugnacious in disposition.

  • Terriers are small dogs of agile and light build, short muzzles, and very highly arched skulls.

  • they all present, which must be of assistance to the animal in steadying it in its agile bounds among the crags of its native haunts.

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