subtlety 音标拼音: [s'ʌtəlti]
n . 微妙,精明
微妙,精明
subtlety n 1 :
a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude ;
"
without understanding the finer nuances you can '
t enjoy the humor "; "
don '
t argue about shades of meaning " [
synonym :
{
nuance }, {
nicety }, {
shade }, {
subtlety }, {
refinement }]
2 :
the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze ; "
you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew " [
synonym :
{
subtlety }, {
niceness }]
Subtlety \
Sub "
tle *
ty \,
n .;
pl . {
Subtleties }. [
OE .
sotelte ,
sutilte ,
OF .
sotillete ,
L .
subtilitas .
See {
Subtle },
and cf .
{
Subtility }.]
1 .
The quality or state of being subtle ,
or sly ;
cunning ;
craftiness ;
artfulness .
[
1913 Webster ]
The fox which lives by subtlety . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action ;
nicety of discrimination .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Something that is sly ,
crafty ,
or delusive .
[
1913 Webster ]
Unlearned in the world '
s false subtleties . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
240 Moby Thesaurus words for "
subtlety ":
Italian hand ,
absoluteness ,
accuracy ,
acquired taste ,
acuteness ,
airiness ,
airy nothing ,
animal cunning ,
apparent soundness ,
appreciation ,
appreciation of differences ,
appreciation of excellence ,
appreciativeness ,
art ,
artfulness ,
artifice ,
artistic judgment ,
astuteness ,
attention to detail ,
attention to fact ,
bodilessness ,
cageyness ,
callidity ,
canniness ,
care for truth ,
casuistry ,
choiceness ,
circularity ,
circumstantiality ,
civilized taste ,
civilizedness ,
cleverness ,
complexity ,
complexness ,
complication ,
connoisseurship ,
conscientiousness ,
convolution ,
correctness ,
crabbedness ,
craft ,
craftiness ,
critical niceness ,
criticality ,
criticalness ,
cultivated taste ,
cultivation ,
culture ,
cunning ,
cunningness ,
daintiness ,
deceptiveness ,
delicacy ,
delicate distinction ,
detail ,
deviousness ,
differentia ,
differential ,
discriminating taste ,
discriminatingness ,
discrimination ,
discriminativeness ,
disingenuousness ,
distinction ,
distortion ,
elegance ,
entanglement ,
equivocalness ,
equivocation ,
ethereality ,
evasive reasoning ,
exactingness ,
exactitude ,
exactness ,
excellence ,
exquisiteness ,
faithfulness ,
fallaciousness ,
fallacy ,
fastidiousness ,
faultlessness ,
feel ,
feeling ,
fidelity ,
fine Italian hand ,
fine palate ,
fine point ,
fineness ,
finesse ,
finicality ,
finicalness ,
finickiness ,
finickingness ,
flawlessness ,
flimsiness ,
foxiness ,
fussiness ,
gamesmanship ,
good taste ,
grace ,
gracefulness ,
gracility ,
graciosity ,
graciousness ,
guile ,
guilefulness ,
hairline ,
immateriality ,
impalpability ,
imponderability ,
incorporeality ,
ingeniousness ,
insidiousness ,
insincerity ,
insolidity ,
insubstantiality ,
intangibility ,
intricacy ,
intricateness ,
inventiveness ,
involution ,
involvement ,
jesuitism ,
jesuitry ,
judiciousness ,
literalism ,
literality ,
literalness ,
low cunning ,
making distinctions ,
margin ,
mathematical precision ,
meticulousness ,
minuteness ,
misapplication ,
mistiness ,
mystification ,
narrow margin ,
nice distinction ,
niceness ,
niceness of distinction ,
nicety ,
nuance ,
obfuscation ,
obscurantism ,
one -
upmanship ,
oversubtlety ,
palate ,
particle of difference ,
particularity ,
particularness ,
pawkiness ,
perfection ,
perplexity ,
perversion ,
philosophism ,
plausibility ,
plausibleness ,
point of difference ,
polish ,
preciseness ,
precisianism ,
precision ,
punctiliousness ,
punctuality ,
quality ,
ramification ,
rareness ,
rarity ,
rationalization ,
readiness ,
refined discrimination ,
refined palate ,
refinement ,
resourcefulness ,
right ,
rightness ,
rigidity ,
rigidness ,
rigor ,
rigorousness ,
satanic cunning ,
scrupulosity ,
scrupulousness ,
selectiveness ,
sense ,
sensibility ,
sensitivity ,
severity ,
shade of difference ,
sharpness ,
shiftiness ,
shrewdness ,
slickness ,
slightness ,
slipperiness ,
slyness ,
sneakiness ,
sophism ,
sophistical reasoning ,
sophistication ,
sophistry ,
special pleading ,
speciosity ,
specious reasoning ,
speciousness ,
stealth ,
stealthiness ,
strictness ,
subtility ,
subtilty ,
subtle distinction ,
subtleness ,
suppleness ,
tact ,
tactfulness ,
tanglement ,
taste ,
tastefulness ,
technicality ,
tenuity ,
tenuousness ,
textualism ,
the letter ,
thinness ,
treachery ,
trickiness ,
unconcreteness ,
unreality ,
unsolidity ,
unsubstantiality ,
unsubstantialness ,
vagueness ,
vicious circle ,
vicious reasoning ,
wariness ,
wide margin ,
wiles ,
wiliness ,
wit
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