Nimble vs Elegance - What's the difference?
nimble | elegance |
Quick and light in movement or action.
Quick-witted and alert.
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
Restraint and grace of style
The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
(countable) A refinement or luxury
* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition=
, passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition=
, passage=Phineas Duge
As an adjective nimble
is quick and light in movement or action.As a noun elegance is
elegance.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.
elegance
English
(wikipedia elegance)Noun
(en-noun)- The bride was elegance personified.
- The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
- The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
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