what does subtle mean?
SUBTLE as ADJECTIVE
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- faint and difficult to analyze
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- Meaning
- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
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- glaucoma is an insidious disease
- a subtle poison
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- be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
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- his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change
- a subtle difference
- that elusive thing the soul
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- able to make fine distinctions
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