nuanced

Having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning.

Adjective

  1. Having nuances; possessed of multiple layers of detail, pattern, or meaning.
    • The setting sunlight played through the gently waving branches, creating subtly nuanced transitions of color and tone.
    • I would like to have heard his intonation delicately nuanced so as to carry the greatest punch. I would like to have seen the changes of expression that played across his face as he spoke. - 1989, R. Kent Hughes,...
    • ...the pattern normally straightens into an almost pure latticework of identical quarries and the foliage painting becomes much more nuanced and delicate. - 1998, Meredith Parsons Lillich, The Queen of Sicily and Gothic...

    Antonyms: naive

Origin

Etymology tree English nuance English -ed English nuanced From nuance + -ed.

Forms

more nuanced most nuanced

Derived

nuancedly unnuanced

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of nuance