Synonyms of nimble

nimble

adjective

1

as in intelligent

having or showing quickness of mind

possessing a nimble wit, he always has a cutting comeback for any intended insult thrown his way

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• quick
• clever
• fast
• smart
• sharp
• brilliant
• bright
• exceptional
• keen
• skilled
• wise
• quick-witted
• educated
• alert
• sharp-witted
• brainy
• cunning
• resourceful
• supersmart
• hyperintelligent
• savvy
• astute
• ingenious
• literate
• creative
• ultrasmart
• sensible
• apt
• insightful
• perceptive
• sagacious
• acute
• learned
• cerebral
• knowledgeable
• prudent
• schooled
• trained
• informed
• erudite
• perspicacious
• inventive
• discerning
• scholarly
• judicious
• heady
• wily
• logical
• shrewd
• reasonable
• knowing
• sane
• sound
• rational
• genial
• sapient
• crafty
• well-read
• sage
• percipient
• highbrow
• foxy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slow
• simple
• soft
• dense
• dumb
• stupid
• thick
• opaque
• obtuse
• dim
• dull
• dopey
• unintelligent
• mindless
• vacuous
• fatuous
• witless
• brainless
• brain-dead
• senseless
• thickheaded
• doltish
• dunderheaded
• pinheaded
• boneheaded
• weak-minded
• softheaded
• foolish
• dorky
• lamebrained
• simpleminded
• lamebrain
• dopy
• feebleminded
• slow-witted
• silly
• dim-witted
• idiotic
• gormless
• knuckleheaded
• empty-headed
• moronic
• thick-witted
• imbecile
• ignorant
• lunkheaded
• unsmart
• unbrilliant
• airheaded
• imbecilic
• chuckleheaded
• bubbleheaded
• unthinking
• uneducated
• half-witted
• uninformed
• illiterate
• untaught
• birdbrained
• mad
• unwise
• zany
• nonintellectual
• insane
• unacademic
• crazy
• absurd
• unintellectual
• lowbrow
• nutty
• wacky
• idiotical
• fool
• daffy
• lunatic
• whacky
• daft
• preposterous
• dippy
• kooky
• cuckoo
• nonsensical
• balmy
• loony
• sappy
• asinine
• harebrained
• boobish
• half-baked
• screwball
• cockeyed
• dotty
• looney
• crackpot
• featherheaded
• tomfool
• kookie

2

as in graceful

moving easily

her nimble fingers make knitting look so easy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• graceful
• agile
• spry
• lissom
• lithe
• gracile
• feline
• balletic
• lithesome
• lissome
• light-footed
• light-foot
• light
• flexible
• dextrous
• lightsome
• limber
• pliant
• dexterous
• acrobatic
• adroit
• supple
• deft
• pliable
• featly
• athletic
• coordinated
• loose-jointed
• sure-footed
• fleet-footed
• light-fingered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clumsy
• lumbering
• ungainly
• awkward
• gawky
• ungraceful
• graceless
• uncoordinated
• rigid
• klutzy
• stiff
• inflexible
• inept
• maladroit
• bungling