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Subtly vs Slowly - What's the difference?

subtly | slowly |

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)
  • With subtleness, in a subtle manner. With cleverness rather than brute force.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}

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    slowly

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • At a slow pace.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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.}}

    Antonyms

    * quickly

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