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Definition
able to move well quickly and easilyor:
able to think well quickly and easily
- She is amazingly agile for someone so tall.
agile = able to move well quickly and easily
- She's an agile thinker. I'd like her at the meeting.
- Her agility allows her to guard even the quickest ball handlers.
- Even as he touched it, the general sensed his danger and leaped back with the agility of an ape.Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- Like you're two seconds faster in the agility drill.Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
- A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi
- To walk across country without much regard to roads was not new to Tess, and she showed her old agility in the performance.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Buck's marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- Her mother might feel frustrated looking at these emblems of her more agile self.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- 'You shall see,' said Tim, getting off his stool with great agility, 'you shall see, not only Mr Charles, but Mr Ned likewise.'Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- Their first couple of steps were lumbering, but then they recovered, growing steady and strong and agile.James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
- The hunter moved with his swift, noiseless agility.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- We took our place, Renesmee climbing agilely onto my back to leave my hands free.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Anion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- It wasn't one he'd seen before tonight; this one had the wrinkled face and agile hands of a huge monkey, but the long, barbed tail of a scorpion.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- No severe damage was done, owing to the agility of the strikers in keeping out of reach.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- You are a father, a dictator, a servant, the most agile actor this land has ever known.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- The Countess's mind, when her interests were concerned, was agile; she already foresaw the extinction of any further brightness in her visit to Rome.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Meanwhile, a flourishing black-market trade in aids to concentration, mental agility and wakefulness had sprung up among the fifth— and seventh-years.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Grinning, she shifted her body, quick and agile, and overbalanced him.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
agile = able to think well quickly and easily
agility = ability to move well quickly and easily
agility = ability to move well quickly and easily
agility = ability to move well quickly and easily
agile = able to move well quickly and easily