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Dictionary Results for subtle: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
subtle
adj 1: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his
whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle
difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn:
elusive, subtle]
2: able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind"
3: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn:
insidious, pernicious, subtle]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Subtile \Sub"tile\, a. [L. subtilis. See Subtile.]
1. Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile
vapor; a subtile medium.
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2. Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine;
delicate; tenuous; finely woven. "A sotil [subtile]
twine's thread." --Chaucer.
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More subtile web Arachne can not spin. --Spenser.
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I do distinguish plain
Each subtile line of her immortal face. --Sir J.
Davies.
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3. Acute; piercing; searching.
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The slow disease and subtile pain. --Prior.
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5. Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning;
delicate; refined; subtle. [In this sense now commonly
written subtle.]
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely
subtile, without being at all acute; hence there is
so much humor and so little wit in their literature.
The genius of the Italians, on the contrary, is
acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence
what they think to be humorous, is merely witty.
--Coleridge.
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The subtile influence of an intellect like
Emerson's. --Hawthorne.
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5. Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile
person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme. [In this
sense now commonly written subtle.]
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Syn: Subtile, Acute.
Usage: In acute the image is that of a needle's point; in
subtile that of a thread spun out to fineness. The
acute intellect pierces to its aim; the subtile (or
subtle) intellect winds its way through obstacles.
[1913 Webster] -- Sub"tile*ly, adv. --
Sub"tile*ness, n.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Subtle \Sub"tle\, a. [Compar. Subtler; superl. Subtlest.]
[OE. sotil, subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L.
subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under
+ tela a web, fr. texere to weave. See Text, and cf.
Subtile.]
1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; --
applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle traitor."
--Shak.
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2. Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle
stratagem.
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3. 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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Things remote from use, obscure and subtle.
--Milton.
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4. Smooth and deceptive. [Obs.]
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Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground [bowling
ground]. --Shak.
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Syn: Artful; crafty; cunning; shrewd; sly; wily.
Usage: Subtle is the most comprehensive of these epithets and
implies the finest intellectual quality. See Shrewd,
and Cunning.
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