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Meanings of agility in English
The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Synonyms
Examples for "lightness"
Examples for "lightness"
1
Sometimes too much lightness: The young boys' mourning never really is addressed.
2
Having cast away the stone, she feels a new sense of lightness.
3
You grasp it; it comes away in your hands with startling lightness.
4
This will remove the acidity, and rather improve the bread in lightness.
5
I felt the sudden lightness: I gripped the window casement and clung.
1
The incarnation of fragile nimbleness, though at the moment sluggish with exhaustion.
2
The nimbleness and shrewdness of some public men he failed to appreciate.
3
It was built to make an impression, not for speed or nimbleness.
4
Thus is the nimbleness of women's wit measured once and for all.
5
When their talk ran upon impersonal things the old nimbleness of mind functioned.
1
Carterette, with all her seeming lightsomeness, had sense and self- possession.
2
They left the theater very slowly, with all the lightsomeness and gladness of heart gone.
3
There was lightsomeness and gladness in every breath.
4
The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.
5
George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.
1
Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.
Usage of agility in English
1
Skiing: Zigging and zagging through this slalom course requires great physical agility.
2
The agility question is one that voters should have asked before 2008.
3
One provider This agility can be crucial in today's highly competitive market.
4
In agility in climbing the steep, rough places they equal the goat.
5
What Victor lacked in reach and height he made up in agility.
6
That being said, I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!
7
We rode down to the shore; but Malcolm walked with graceful agility.
8
Young, super-fit gymnasts performed a dazzling display with amazing skill and agility.
9
He has physical agility but he also has a lot of toys.
10
With the agility of a panther, the Chevalier sprang toward the bully.
11
Even cleverer, is the car's agility in tight parking or traffic conditions.
12
Apparently the Haddock realized the fact for he skipped backward with agility.
13
Plus there's obedience and agility competitions, as well as some quirky events.
14
The cranial cavity was not affected, and motion and agility were uncompromised.
15
He could scarcely credit such nimble agility in a figure so gross.
16
His extremely agile mind finds its chief pleasure in its own agility.
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Agility across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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United States of America
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