Nubile vs Agile - What's the difference?
nubile | agile |
of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
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.
As adjectives the difference between nubile and agile
is that nubile is of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman) while 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.As a noun nubile
is a young sexually attractive woman.nubile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
For a man, especially a young man, (m) is sometimes used as the corresponding term in the sense ‘marriageable’, particularly in the phrase (eligible bachelor) .Derived terms
* nubilityAnagrams
* ----agile
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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