subtle 的定义
sub·tler, sub·tlest.
- thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand: subtle irony.
- delicate or faint and mysterious: a subtle smile.
- requiring mental acuteness, penetration, or discernment: a subtle philosophy.
- characterized by mental acuteness or penetration: a subtle understanding.
- cunning, wily, or crafty: a subtle liar.
- insidious in operation: subtle poison.
- skillful, clever, or ingenious: a subtle painter.
subtle 近义词
nice, quiet, delicate
clever, cunning
更多subtle例句
- On a per-million basis, the United States’ position in 11th place goes to 15th — a slight but subtle improvement.
- That led Connecticut’s governor to make a subtle, but crucial, change to the state’s election rules on the day before the election.
- The answer is almost certainly yes, given another subtle change the company made in its amended filing today.
- What’s subtle is that an equivalence between two objects should be recorded as additional data.
- Insider threats, where a company’s own employee carries out a cyberattack against it, are an especially pernicious and subtle form of hacking.
- Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.
- At that time, pre -9/11, the links were more subtle and had to be hunted down.
- Hammerstein continued his subtle quest for racial equanimity in Oklahoma!
- In recent days, there has been a subtle feeling of defeat permeating through the camp.
- Vreeland believes that in the end, his grandmother put her subtle seal of approval on his lifestyle.
- Her voice was stern; it bore to the girl's ears a subtle, unworded repetition of the threat the Marquise had already voiced.
- It was a curious moment, charged with a subtle perplexity of emotions none of them quite understood.
- It was the spiritual way, whose method and secret lie in that subtle paradox: Yield to conquer.
- A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.
- The champagne was cold, and its subtle fumes played fantastic tricks with Edna's memory that night.