Vocabulary
Subtle
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe.
Urdu meaning
ٹھیک ٹھاک، چالاک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- He can turn the day into night and the night into day`; and this, according to the lawyer, was a subtle way of echoing what Sir Ivor Jennings said about the suprem-acy of the Westminster parliament.
- Within corporations, they energise teams, reinforce values, and advance strategic aims through subtle but powerful psychological mechanisms.
- It must be continually defended against both overt and subtle encroachments.
- The real barriers are more prosaic: inadequate childcare, inflexible working hours, and the subtle yet persistent bias that views women as unsuitable for senior positions.
- But the process finds a natural limit, an end point past which it cannot continue without something, somewhere, breaking.It`s a subtle craft trying to determine when that point is reached.
Synonyms
fine, fine-drawn, ultra-fine, nice, overnice, minute, precise, narrow, tenuous.
Curator example
“his language expresses rich and subtle meanings”.
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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