[ UK /nˈɪmbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈnɪmbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. moving quickly and lightly
    the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
    nimble fingers
    quick of foot
    as nimble as a deer
    sleek and agile as a gymnast
  2. mentally quick
    an agile mind
    nimble wits
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How To Use nimble In A Sentence

  • Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
  • Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
  • Modeled after British roadsters, the Miata MX - 5 is less about muscle than about being a quick and nimble extension of you.
  • She was a free spirit, and nimble as hell.
  • And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine. The Social Disability of the Jew
  • The child had the nimbleness of a mountain shepherd, and Prometheus — the grace of an almost-god. FIREBRINGER • by Therese Arkenberg
  • The irresistibly danceable blues-zydeco fusion music pioneered by the late accordionist Alton Rubin Sr. (aka Rockin 'Dopsie) continues to evolve in the nimble fingers of a second generation. In New Orleans, jazz fans get their groove on despite rain
  • That feeling is produced by the cockpit-like design and the nimble driving dynamics that Mazda, a unit of Ford Motor Co., has been able to coax out of the chassis, which is also used in the Ford Edge. Mazda's CX-9 Crossover
  • His nimble mind calculated the answer before I could key the numbers into my computer.
  • Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated.
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