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Subtile vs Wily - What's the difference?

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Subtile is a related term of wily.


As adjectives the difference between subtile and wily

is that subtile is (obsolete) subtle while wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks.

subtile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) subtle
  • * 1819 , , The Works of Francis Bacon , volume 2, page 2:
    • And sometimes this perception, in some kind of bodies, is far more subtile than the sense; so that the sense is but a dull thing in comparison of it: we see a weather-glass will find the least difference of the weather, in heat, or cold, when men find it not.

    Derived terms

    * subtile body

    External links

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    wily

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • sly, cunning, full of tricks
    • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

    Synonyms

    * See also