[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

subtile \sub"tile\, a. l. subtilis. see subtile.
   1. thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile
      vapor; a subtile medium.
      1913 webster

   2. delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine;
      delicate; tenuous; finely woven. "a sotil subtile
      twine's thread." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            more subtile web arachne can not spin. --spenser.
      1913 webster

            i do distinguish plain
            each subtile line of her immortal face. --sir j.
                                                  davies.
      1913 webster

   3. acute; piercing; searching.
      1913 webster

            the slow disease and subtile pain.    --prior.
      1913 webster

   5. characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning;
      delicate; refined; subtle. in this sense now commonly
      written subtle.
      1913 webster

            the genius of the spanish people is exquisitely
            subtile, without being at all acute; hence there is
            so much humor and so little wit in their literature.
            the genius of the italians, on the contrary, is
            acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence
            what they think to be humorous, is merely witty.
                                                  --coleridge.
      1913 webster

            the subtile influence of an intellect like
            emerson's.                            --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   5. sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile
      person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme. in this
      sense now commonly written subtle.
      1913 webster

   syn: subtile, acute.

   usage: in acute the image is that of a needle's point; in
          subtile that of a thread spun out to fineness. the
          acute intellect pierces to its aim; the subtile or
          subtle intellect winds its way through obstacles.
          1913 webster -- sub"tilely, adv. --
          sub"tileness, n.
          1913 webster
see also:
subtile subtle acute sub"tilely sub"tileness 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

96 moby thesaurus words for "subtile":
   byzantine, machiavellian, machiavellic, acute, adulterated,
   air-built, airy, arch, artful, astute, attenuate, attenuated,
   cagey, calculating, canny, chimerical, clever, cloud-built, crafty,
   cunning, cut, cute, dainty, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, delicate,
   designing, devious, dilute, diluted, diplomatic, dreamlike,
   ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feline, fine, flimsy, foxy,
   gaseous, gossamery, guileful, illusory, imaginary, ingenious,
   insidious, insubstantial, inventive, knowing, pawky, phantomlike,
   politic, rare, rarefied, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine,
   shadowy, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slight, slippery, sly,
   smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, spirituous, stealthy,
   strategic, subtle, supple, tactical, tenuous, thin, thinned,
   thinned-out, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncompact, uncompressed,
   unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous, vulpine, wary, watered,
   watered-down, wily, windy

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