单词 | unsubtle |
释义 | unsubtleadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent simple?c1225 innocenta1382 simple-hearted?c1425 unsubtlea1500 indolec1550 naïfc1598 sacklessa1600 plain-hearted1601 unnooked1602 unguileful1604 onefold1606 naivea1614 innocentious1624 innocential1628 excuseless1640 uncrafty1647 craftless1650 ingenuousa1662 innocentive1661 unartful1703 artless1714 ingénue1848 blue-eyed1903 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [adjective] > of mind, thought, etc. feeble1393 weak1423 unsubtlea1500 shallowc1595 uncapacious1635 unprofound1677 shoal1728 rickety1738 sicklya1771 inexcursive1837 no-brow1922 a1500 Ratis Raving i. 877 For sen [? read few] vnsubtill that are fals Eschapis vnhyngyt be the hals. 1942 A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood ii. 29 My father..was a man of simple texture, upright, hard-working..but he was uneducated, unintrospective, unsubtle. 1978 R. Nixon Mem. 526 The Soviets moved troops to the Chinese border in an unsubtle attempt to tie up Chinese forces and prevent them from going to the aid of Pakistan. Derivatives unˈsubtly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adverb] > artlessly, guilessly, or innocently innocentlyc1400 ingenuously1611 plain-heartedly1675 artlessly1713 naively1716 naïfly1859 unsubtly1934 1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1959 Times 24 Oct. 9/1 French vowels fall unsubtly from her lips. 1976 Daily Tel. 8 July 16 Anyone who goes around announcing, or unsubtly implying, that he is so terribly tough, aggressive and exciting is unlikely to be any of those things. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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