Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈsʌt.li/, /ˈsʌt.l̩.lɪi/
- US IPA: /ˈsʌt.l̩.lɪi/
Full definition of subtly
Adverb
- 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.