nuanced
Americanadjective
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expressing or involving subtle distinctions: Life is wonderfully nuanced, textured, complicated, beautiful, and rich.
Their opinions are always nuanced and informing.
Life is wonderfully nuanced, textured, complicated, beautiful, and rich.
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characterized by slight difference or variation in color, tone, flavor, etc..
Dawn and dusk imposed softer, darker shades of nuanced, shadowed light.
verb
Other Word Forms
- unnuanced adjective
Etymology
Origin of nuanced
Example Sentences
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These comparisons aren’t exactly nuanced but they are stark and, for most of the film, Franco just asks us to watch them move together and apart, in a strange, avoidant pas de deux.
From Los Angeles Times
Councillor Adrian Garden said views were "mixed and often nuanced" and called for greater transparency around community benefits.
From BBC
Like many illustrious figures, the cowboy turns out to be a more nuanced individual than the often one-dimensional representations of the silver screen.
From Los Angeles Times
"However, for retailers and suppliers, the implications are more nuanced, given the likelihood of reduced direct interaction with customers and more engagement with other AI agents."
From Barron's
But, as consumer psychologists who study the nuanced and often-overlooked factors that influence everyday judgments and decisions, we weren’t so sure.
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