Crossword clues for subtler
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 design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. ``A subtle traitor.''
--Shak.Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.
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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.
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Smooth and deceptive. [Obs.]
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground [bowling ground].
--Shak.Syn: Artful; crafty; cunning; shrewd; sly; wily.
Usage: Subtle is the most comprehensive of these epithets and implies the finest intellectual quality. See Shrewd, and Cunning.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) (en-comparative of: subtle) ''More subtle.''
Usage examples of "subtler".
He mulled over the subtler aspects of that vivid contact with his daughter.
F'lessan did not add that Golanth was showing more and more of a proprietary interest in the green's well-being, one of the subtler reasons why he was glad Tai preferred to work away from projects with other dragonriders.
This is also meant to include and imply the possibility of the existence of subtler bioenergies that numerous researchers (from William Tiller to Hiroshi Moto-yama) feel are holarchically enveloping the bodymind.
But these energies are still exterior and can be monologically perceived with appropriate equipment (or subtler senses), and thus belong to this quadrant (although they would have various correlates in the other quadrants as well, as all holons do).
Throughout the rest of the text, I generally use Kosmos to mean all manifestation, gross, psychic, subtle, right up to the causal, but since I haven't introduced these subtler domains, Kosmos here means the gross/waking world.
This is called the very subtle mind [causal/nondual] because there is no subtler mind than this" (p.
And thus, when they attempt to escape the violence and leveling of the flatland view, they end up perpetuating it in subtler but equally insidious forms.
He was simply unable to translate the subtler tricks of such trained politicians as Sumitral and Third.
She had a pedantic tendency and misunderstood the subtler whimsy of Laria and Kincaid.
If he was a Federal agent, he would also know the capabilities of crystal singers, and the subtler ways to identify them.
But there were other, subtler ways to make them pay for their father's defection.
The human dragonmates had abruptly found themselves a group set apart, by occupation and dedication, as well as by the subtler changes within them.
As she moved farther into the room, she could identify the subtler fragrances and smells.
He means to say that to each solid form we see here there corresponds a subtler form of it which is in the fourth dimension.
But his general thesis is quite tenable: that is to say, right up to the beginning of the modernist period the poets, at least most of them,-seem to have some perception or experience of other subtler worlds.