Subtile vs. Subtle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Subtile and Subtle
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Subtile
Subtle.
Subtle
(especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe
His language expresses rich and subtle meanings
Subtile
Obsolete form of subtle
Subtle
Making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something
He tried a more subtle approach
Subtile
Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
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Subtle
Crafty; cunning
The subtle fiend dissembled
Subtile
Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.
More subtile web Arachne can not spin.
I do distinguish plainEach subtile line of her immortal face.
Subtle
So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive
A subtle smile.
Subtile
Acute; piercing; searching.
The slow disease and subtile pain.
Subtle
Difficult to understand; abstruse
An argument whose subtle point was lost on her opponent.
Subtile
Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.
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.
The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's.
Subtle
Able to make fine distinctions
A subtle mind.
Subtile
Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.
Subtle
Operating in a hidden, usually injurious way; insidious
A subtle poison.
Subtle
Characterized by skill or ingenuity; clever.
Subtle
Crafty or sly; devious.
Subtle
Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood.
Subtle
Barely noticeable, not obvious, indistinct.
The difference is subtle, but you can hear it if you listen carefully.
Subtle
(of a thing) Cleverly contrived.
Subtle
(of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.
Subtle
Insidious.
Subtle
Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.
Subtle
(obsolete) Refined; exquisite.
Subtle
Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; - applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.
Subtle
Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.
Subtle
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.
Things remote from use, obscure and subtle.
Subtle
Smooth and deceptive.
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground [bowling ground].
Subtle
Be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind;
His whole attitude had undergone a subtle change
A subtle difference
That elusive thing the soul
Subtle
Faint and difficult to analyze;
Subtle aromas
Subtle
Able to make fine distinctions;
A subtle mind
Subtle
Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
Glaucoma is an insidious disease
A subtle poison
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