Agility
[ə'dʒɪlətɪ]
Definition
(noun.) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Typed by Clint--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
(n.) Activity; powerful agency.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Liveliness, nimbleness, briskness, smartness, activity, quickness, readiness, alertness, sprightliness, suppleness.
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Examples
- They would often spring, and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Thus assisted, she skipped down with much agility, and began to tie her double chin into her bonnet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That shape, which produces strength, is beautiful in one animal; and that which is a sign of agility in another. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The strength, agility, and blind ferocity of these two creatures is approached by nothing known to earthly man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- So they set out, D'Arnot marveling as had Clayton and Jane at the wondrous strength and agility of the apeman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To a red Martian escape by this path would have appeared impossible, but to me, with my earthly strength and agility, it seemed already accomplished. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- To his agility, to his brain and to his long keen knife he owed his supremacy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Yet who else in all the world was there with the strength and agility to do what this man was now doing? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Walking up last to the boy, he felt of his arms, straightened his hands, and looked at his fingers, and made him jump, to show his agility. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There can seldom have been a statesman of the first rank more incompetent than the President in the agilities of the Council Chamber. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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