Nimble: alternatives and connections

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

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Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

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The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

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The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

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Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

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Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

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Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.