Nimble

/ˈnɪmbəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Adept at taking or grasping..

Definitions by Sense

1. Adept at taking or grasping.
2. Quick and light in movement or action.
3. Quickwitted and alert.
4. (intransitive) To move nimbly.

Example Sentences

nimble fingers

He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.

[…] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?

Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.

The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.

He has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

"It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]

Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.

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Word Forms

• nimbler
• nimblest
• nimbles
• nimbling
• nimbled

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