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supersubtle en · ADJ

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Etymology

From super- + subtle.

Meanings

1. Very tenuous or rarefied.
   • She was introduced to Madame Grandoni, and tea was immediately served; Hyacinth being gratefully conscious the while of the supersubtle way in which Lady Aurora forebore to appear bewildered at meeting him in such society. 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:

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