Feint vs Subtle - What's the difference?
feint | subtle |
To make a feint, or mock attack.
(to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent)
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(obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
* John Locke
(fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
* Spectator
(fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)
Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable.
(of a thing) Cleverly contrived.
(of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.
insidious
* 1623 , , act iv, scene 4,
Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.
As adjectives the difference between feint and subtle
is that feint is (obsolete) feigned; counterfeit while subtle is hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable.As a verb feint
is to make a feint, or mock attack.As a noun feint
is a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.feint
English
Verb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
Noun
(en noun)- Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
subtle
English
Alternative forms
* subtil (obsolete) * subtile (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- The difference is subtle , but you can hear it if you listen carefully.
- Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle , bloody, treacherous.