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Alacrity vs Agile - What's the difference?

alacrity | agile |

As a noun alacrity

is eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

As an adjective agile is

having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

alacrity

English

Noun

(alacrities)
  • Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
  • * 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 12:
    • "I'll get into the clothes this minute, if they're here," said Sam, with great alacrity .
  • * 1922 , , The Glimpses of the Moon , ch. 24:
    • This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.
  • Promptness; speed.
  • * 1849 , , "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience":
    • Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
  • * 1902 , , Heart of Darkness , Part 1:
    • He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity .

    Synonyms

    * (eagerness) avidity, eagerness, enthusiasm, willingness * (promptness) briskness, celerity, haste, promptness, quickness, swiftness

    Antonyms

    * (eagerness) apathy, disinclination, hesitance, indifference, reluctance

    Related terms

    * alacritous

    References

    agile

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
  • * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
  • (computing) Of or relating to (Agile software development), a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
    • agile methods

    Synonyms

    * active, alert, nimble, brisk, lively, quick

    Derived terms

    * agility ----