nimble

Speech parts

1. nimble - Adjective

2. nimble - Verb

4. nimble - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

quick agile active lively brisk spry leger dexter allegro nim high-speed swift pert light handy
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Antonyms

sluggish heavy slow thick dense rigid
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Phrases with the word

nimble-fingered person nimble-footed nimble person nimble speed nimble gibbon nimble-minded

Anagrams

milneb

Examples

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! Frances Burney

It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. Oscar Wilde

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet! Eleanor Farjeon

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. Izaak Walton

His words ... like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command. John Milton

When the will is prompt the legs are nimble. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

nimbidol nimbiferous nimbility nimble eye movement nimble gibbon nimble person