Vocabulary
Subtle
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe.
Urdu meaning
ٹھیک ٹھاک، چالاک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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These, they declared, were signs of `social vice`.The first tactics were subtle.
Dawn Editorials —
Justice, Pakistan-style
— 2026-01-27
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That pursuit was not subtle.President Trump spoke of the Nobel as something he had earned but been unfairly denied, a prize that history had misplaced.The grievance lingered, resurfacing whenever foreign policy or legacy came up.
Dawn Editorials —
Not quite Nobel
— 2026-01-18
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The irony is that AI integration is often portrayed as a grand upheaval, when in practice it resembles the subtle recalibration of a compass.Most companies do not need moonshot laboratories.
Dawn Editorials —
The silent risk
— 2025-12-13
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They press this point by subtle attempts at blackmail.
Dawn Editorials —
Adapt or die
— 2025-10-30
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He can turn the day into night and the night into day`; and this, according to the lawyer, was a subtle way of echoing what Sir Ivor Jennings said about the suprem-acy of the Westminster parliament.
Dawn Editorials —
Servility in courts
— 2025-07-26
Synonyms
fine, fine-drawn, ultra-fine, nice, overnice, minute, precise, narrow, tenuous.
Curator example
“his language expresses rich and subtle meanings”.
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