Dictionary Entry
subtle
subtle is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.
- 2superlative
Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.
- 3superlative
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.
- 4superlative
Smooth and deceptive.
- 5adjective
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"
"a subtle poison"
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- 6adjective
difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
"his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"
"a subtle difference"
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- 7adjective
able to make fine distinctions
"a subtle mind"
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