subtle
— Adjective
– English
~ working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
subtle
— Adjective
– English
~ 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"
subtle
— Adjective
– English
~ able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind"
subtlety
— Noun
– English
~ a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning"
subtlety
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew"
subtly
— Adverb
– English
~ in a subtle manner; "late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy"