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| Main Entry: |
subtlety
 [suht-l-tee] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a fine distinction |
| Synonyms: | distinction, innuendo, nuance |
| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit, scheme |
| Synonyms: | art, artfulness, artifice, cageyness, canniness, contrivance, craftiness, cunning, disingenuity, duplicity, foxiness, guile, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, subtlety, trickery, wiles, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
| Synonyms: | airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
| Antonyms: | coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
Example Sentences
- He seemed to be enjoying the subtlety of his cross examination.
- That, no doubt, added to the impression of him as an artist for whom color and subtlety of shading are not of primary concern.
- The trees, some so ancient and so bent that they are sculptures themselves, enhance the majesty and the subtlety of the bronzes.
| Main Entry: | diplomacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tact |
| Synonyms: | address, artfulness, craft, delicacy, delicatesse, discretion, expedience, finesse, negotiation, poise, politics, savoir-faire, skill, statecraft, subtlety |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, impoliteness, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | discrimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particularity in taste |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, astucity, astuteness, bias, clearness, decision, difference, differentiation, discernment, distinction, judgment, keenness, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, preference, refinement, sagacity, sense, separation, shrewdness, subtlety, taste, understanding |
| Antonyms: | indifference |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
| Synonyms: | acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
| Synonyms: | IQ, acuity, acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brainpower, brains, brightness, brilliance, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, coruscation, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, precocity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, the right stuff, trenchancy, understanding, what it takes, wit |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | mystery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, closed book, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzlement, question, rebus, riddle, rune, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, sphinx, stickler, stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, twister, whodunit, why* |
| Antonyms: | known, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nicety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine point |
| Synonyms: | detail, exactness, fine distinction, meticulousness, nuance, precision, refinement, rigor, rigorousness, shade, subtlety |
| Notes: | niceness is a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage while nicety is a fine detail, distinction, or small difference or an elegant, choice, or refined feature |
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