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Nimble

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Adjective

1. agile, nimble, quick, spry

moving quickly and lightly

Example Sentences:
'sleek and agile as a gymnast'
'as nimble as a deer'
'nimble fingers'
'quick of foot'
'the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it'

2. agile, nimble

mentally quick

Example Sentences:
'an agile mind'
'nimble wits'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nimble

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adjective
1. 
agile, quick, and neat in movement
nimble fingers
2. 
alert; acute
a nimble intellect

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Nimble

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈnimbler or ˈnimblest
1. 
mentally quick; quick-witted; alert
a nimble mind
2.  Rare
showing mental quickness
a nimble reply
3. 
moving quickly and lightly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nimble

see synonyms of nimble
adj. nim·bler, nim·blest
1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft: nimble fingers.
2. Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding: nimble wits. See Synonyms at dexterous.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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