Nimble vs Adaptive - What's the difference?
nimble | adaptive |
Quick and light in movement or action.
Quick-witted and alert.
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
* {{quote-book, author=Charles Darwin, title=, year=1859
, passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}
* {{quote-book, author=C. Lloyd Morgan, title=, year=1896
, passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
As adjectives the difference between nimble and adaptive
is that nimble is quick and light in movement or action while adaptive is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.nimble
English
Adjective
(er)- He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
- She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.