Subtle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUBTLE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• so slight as to be difficult to detect, also SUBTIL, SUBTILE
• (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe
• (of a mixture or effect) delicately complex and understated
• capable of making fine distinctions
• arranged in an ingenious and elaborate way
• making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something
• crafty; cunning
• not immediately obvious
• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
• able to make fine distinctions
• working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

Words related to SUBTLE

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How to use SUBTLE in a sentence

• A subtle and delicate aroma of coffee and herrings which had escaped from neighbouring breakfast-tables invaded the room and reminded him of an appetite.
• The many cannot but resent that air of lofty intelligence, that pale and subtle smile.
• The marvellous reality and subtle distinctive traits noticeable in her portraits has led Macaulay to call her a prose Shakspere.
• And therefore I doubt not but the temptation was more spiritual, more subtle, and more dangerous.
• In reality, the method is more subtle than they knew.
• Her beautiful head drooped upon his shoulder, her breath was warm upon his cheek, and the subtle scent of her hair was in his nostrils.
• Yet in these, their dark and subtle neighbors, was their only hope.
• The relations in life which are precious to such youth, the intimate, the mystical and subtle ones, get small recognition or expression.
• It is the most subtle and difficult of all the sciences.
• As if touched by a gleam from the lamp, or as if by some subtle interior illumination, the spectre became faintly luminous, and a thin smile seemed to quiver over its features.
• The subtle perfume about her filled him with strange emotions.
• George had never ceased to be courteous, but there was a subtle difference in his manner, in his way of looking at her.
• But the researches of the sages are not confined to such subtle or elegant studies.
• Shiffney was a past mistress in the art of subtle flattery, when she chose to be.
• His own enmity towards those who thwarted him was much more subtle, silent and cautious.
• A new element had entered their intercourse which was due to some subtle change that had passed upon Him.
• Gradually, imperceptibly, the subtle influences of her old life were stealing into her.
• Such a proportion is seen to be both subtle and simple, and possesses the advantage of being easily laid out.
• It is a model of the right use of symbolic motives in frequent recurrence and subtle variation.
• It did not make him love her less, but it changed the character of his love in some subtle way.
• She was eager to hear everything and helped him along with questions, and yet there ran through her very eagerness a subtle inner resistance which the boy felt vaguely.
• By disposition very obviously a poet, working with no subtle or complex processes and without any of the lighter aspects of humor, Mr.

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