vagile C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˈvædʒəl/ UK /ˈvædʒaɪl/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adj able to move about freely and migrate; not fixed in place (of an organism) Highly vagile species recolonized the island within a decade. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · able to move about freely... mobilemotilewanderingmigratoryroaming ↔ Opposites sessilesedentaryfixed Word family Derived forms vagility Related forms vagrantvagaryvaguevagabond Etymology AI details From Latin vagus ('wandering, roving') plus -ile; a biological term for organisms able to move about and disperse freely. vagus Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # vagile **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ˈvædʒəl/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈvædʒaɪl/ ## Meanings 1. able to move about freely and migrate; not fixed in place (of an organism) ## Examples - Highly vagile species recolonized the island within a decade. ## Synonyms - mobile - motile - wandering - migratory - roaming ## Antonyms - sessile - sedentary - fixed ## Derived Forms - vagility ## Related Forms - vagrant - vagary - vague - vagabond ## Roots and Affixes - Root: vagus ## Etymology From Latin vagus ('wandering, roving') plus -ile; a biological term for organisms able to move about and disperse freely. ## AI Etymology Vagile comes from Latin vagus ('wandering, roving') plus -ile; a biological term for organisms able to move about and disperse freely. The historical chain includes Latin vagus. The quoted older sense, "wandering, roving," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for vagile. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word vagile carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "able to move about freely and migrate; not fixed in place (of an organism)". English derivatives include vagility; related English forms include vagrant, vagary, vague, and vagabond. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - Describing Qualities markdown