Savvy vs Agile - What's the difference?
savvy | agile |
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
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 savvy and agile
is that savvy is (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive 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 verb savvy
is (informal) to understand.As an interjection savvy
is (informal) do you understand?.As a noun savvy
is shrewdness.savvy
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Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
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(-)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