Subtly vs Slowly - What's the difference?
subtly | slowly |
With subtleness, in a subtle manner. With cleverness rather than brute force.
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As adverbs the difference between subtly and slowly
is that subtly is with subtleness, in a subtle manner. With cleverness rather than brute force while slowly is at a slow pace.subtly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)A new prescription, passage=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.}}
Anagrams
*slowly
English
Adverb
(en-adv)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly , […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}