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subtlest
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subtle \Sub"tle\, a. [Compar. Subtler ; superl. Subtlest .] [OE. sotil, subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to weave. See Text , and cf. Subtile .] Sly in ...
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a. (en-superlative of: subtle )
Usage examples of subtlest.
There were five of them: three women and two men, dressed formally in suits and dresses, in the dark threads of which brilliant designs were somehow concealed, so that the subtlest motion of the folds in the flame-light revealed a glamour that brought to Gal’s mind the iridescence of tropical butterflies.
There, the subtlest of winds blew, more distressing in its ingratiating way than any storm, for it seemed to whisper as it ran over the sand, its message just beyond the reach of comprehension.
For some two decades it had been a Game so fragile that it seemed as if it were really being played with glass beads, a seemingly glassy game almost empty of content, a seemingly coquettish and wanton pastime full of frail embellishments, an airy dance, sometimes a tightrope dance, with the subtlest rhythmic structure.
It is the ultimate, subtlest expression of our Castalian type of intellectuality.
Lincoln, you are the subtlest man I have ever come across in politics.