nimble

1. 1

   Adept at taking or grasping.

   • nimble fingers
2. 2

   Quick and light in movement or action.

   • He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
3. 3

   Quickwitted and alert.

   • He has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.

ant. sluggish

1. 1

   To move nimbly.intransitive

   • Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.