Adjective: unsubtle
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | unsubtler |
| Superlative | unsubtlest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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The minute I got there I realized that I didn't need the loo at all, and so the person in the stall next to me was going to think I was either quite mad, an unsubtle drug fiend or some kind of Rebecca Loos-type pervy textaholic. [2007, Alexandra Heminsley, Ex and the City: You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Dumps You:]
Adjectives inflected like unsubtle
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Germanic *un-
5. Proto-West Germanic *un-
6. Old English un-
7. Middle English un-
8. English un-
9. English subtle
10. English unsubtle
11. From un- + subtle.