NIMBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nimbly mean? 

• NIMBLY (adverb)
  The adverb NIMBLY has 1 sense:

1. in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease

  Familiarity information: NIMBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIMBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease

Synonyms:

agilely; nimbly

Context example:

leaped agilely from roof to roof

Pertainym:

nimble (moving quickly and lightly)

 Context examples 

On Steerforth's replying in the affirmative, she pushed a chair against it, and begging the assistance of my hand, mounted up, pretty nimbly, to the top, as if it were a stage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Half the time would have been enough for the curricle, and so nimbly were the light horses disposed to move, that, had not the general chosen to have his own carriage lead the way, they could have passed it with ease in half a minute.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up the stair, swept me like a whirlwind into the nursery, and crushing me down on the edge of my crib, dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Softly, softly; it can’t be done as quickly as that,” said he, and stood still and waited until the animal was quite close, and then sprang nimbly behind the tree.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop’s breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant: “You are such a great fellow, and yet cannot even carry the tree!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)