SUBTLE
\sˈʌtə͡l], \sˈʌtəl], \s_ˈʌ_t_əl]\
Definitions of SUBTLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.
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Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.
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Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive.
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Smooth and deceptive.
By Oddity Software
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Artful; crafty; cunning; as, a subtle scheme; keen; nicely discriminating; as, a subtle mind; delicate; elusive; as, a subtle odor; not appearing on the surface; as, a subtle meaning; skilful, or done with skill; as, a subtle workman.
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Subtly.
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Subtleness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Subtleness.
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Subtile in a fig. sense: insinuating: sly: artful: cunningly devised.
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SUBTLY (B., SUBTILLY).
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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