• Subtly

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈsÊŒt.li/, /ˈsÊŒt.lÌ©.lɪi/
    • US IPA: /ˈsÊŒt.lÌ©.lɪi/

    Full definition of subtly

    Adverb

    subtly

    1. With subtleness, in a subtle manner. With cleverness rather than brute force.
      • 2013-08-10, A new prescription, As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

    Trivia

    Few English words have more syllables than vowels, this is one of the few three-syllable examples. Others include rhythm, -ism (and most derived terms), and fjord.

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