Nimble vs Adept - What's the difference?
nimble | adept |
Quick and light in movement or action.
Quick-witted and alert.
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As adjectives the difference between nimble and adept
is that nimble is quick and light in movement or action while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As a noun adept is
one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.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.
adept
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Synonyms
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* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.