subtilty
subtilty is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 36 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke.
- 2.Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.
- 3.Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii.
- 4.Note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- cavernous
- compressibility
- compressible
- diffusion
- dilatation
- dilate
- ether
- evaporation
- expand
- expansion
- fine
- flimsy
- gas
- hollow
- inflation
- light
- rare
- rarefaction
- rarefiable
- rarefy
- rarity
- slight
- solidity
- sponginess
- spongy
- subtile
- subtility
- subtilization
- subtilize
- subtlety
- tenuity
- tenuous
- thin
- unsubstantial
- vaporization
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is subtilty.
- What is refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke called?
- What is cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer called?
- What is slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii called?
- What is note: In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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