Agile vs Responsive - What's the difference?
agile | responsive |
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.
Answering, replying or responding.
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
Using antiphons; antiphonal.
Susceptible to the feelings of others.
(obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) responsible
As adjectives the difference between agile and responsive
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 responsive is answering, replying or responding.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 ----responsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
