Agile vs Sprightly - What's the difference?
agile | sprightly |
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.
animated, vivacious or gay; lively
full of life and vigor, especially with a light and springy step
(especially of old people) energetic and in good health
In a lively and vigorous way
As adjectives the difference between agile and sprightly
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 sprightly is animated, vivacious, or gay; lively.As an adverb sprightly is
in a lively and vigorous way.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