Agile vs Mortal - What's the difference?
agile | mortal |
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
(computing) Of or relating to (Agile software development), a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
* Milton
Of or relating to the time of death.
* Alexander Pope
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
* Dryden
* mortal enemy
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
* Milton
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
(UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
A human; someone susceptible to death.
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*1596 , (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
*:Lord what fools these mortals be!
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
As adjectives the difference between agile and mortal
is that 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 while mortal is susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.As a noun mortal is
a human; someone susceptible to death.agile
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.
- agile methods
Synonyms
* active, alert, nimble, brisk, lively, quickDerived terms
* agility ----mortal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].
- Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
- Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
- The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
- mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power
- The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.
- a sermon lasting two mortal hours
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- Let's go out and get mortal !