subtly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb in a subtle manner
    • late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy

WordNet

Sub"tly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
    Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise. Milton.
  2. Nicely; delicately.
    In the nice bee what sense so subtly true. Pope.
    Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind. Hawthorne.
  3. Deceitfully; delusively. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913