supersubtle
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supersubtle (comparative more supersubtle, superlative most supersubtle)
- Very tenuous or rarefied.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
- 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.