Usually means: Not obvious, delicately complex, understated.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word subtle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. subtle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subtle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subtle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subtle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subtle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subtle, subtle: Wordnik
  7. subtle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subtle: Wiktionary
  9. subtle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. subtle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. subtle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. subtle: Dictionary.com
  13. subtle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. subtle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Subtle (band), Subtle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Subtle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subtle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. subtle: Rhymezone
  19. subtle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. subtle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. subtle: Free Dictionary
  22. subtle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. subtle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. subtle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subtle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Subtle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. subtle: Medical dictionary

(Note: See subtleness as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood.
▸ adjective:  Barely noticeable, not obvious, indistinct.
▸ adjective:  (of a thing) Cleverly contrived.
▸ adjective:  (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.
▸ adjective:  Insidious.
▸ adjective:  Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Refined; exquisite.

Similar:
perceptive, delicate, elusive, impalpable, insidious, pernicious, harmful, unsubtle, nuanced, subtlety, more...

Opposite:
obvious, blatant, conspicuous, overt, pronounced

Phrases:
subtle body, subtle energy, subtle bodies, subtle doctor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, more...

Adjectives:
not, final, false, more, true, enter

Colors:
    pale pink,     soft lavender,     muted beige,     light taupe,     dusty rose, more...


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Similar:
perceptive, delicate, elusive, impalpable, insidious, pernicious, harmful, unsubtle, nuanced, subtlety, more...

Opposite:
obvious, blatant, conspicuous, overt, pronounced

Phrases:
subtle body, subtle energy, subtle bodies, subtle doctor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, The Subtle Knife, subtle distinction, not subtle, opposite of subtle, subtle difference, more...

Adjectives:
not, final, false, more, true, enter

Colors:
    pale pink,     soft lavender,     muted beige,     light taupe,     dusty rose, more...



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