unsubtly
adverb
unsubtly is an adverb meaning “In an unsubtle manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-S-U-B-T-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unsubtly mean?
adverb
- 1
In an unsubtle manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce unsubtly?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-unsubtly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of unsubtly
- more unsubtly comparative
- most unsubtly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is unsubtly?
Unsubtly appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does unsubtly come from?
From unsubtle + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).