adjective. Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way.

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adjective. Easily broken or damaged.

adjective. Exquisitely fine or dainty: synonym: exquisite.

adjective. Frail in constitution or health.

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adjective. Marked by sensitivity of discrimination.

adjective. Very subtle in difference or distinction.

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adjective. Having or showing great consideration or care.

adjective. Requiring careful or tactful treatment.

adjective. Fine or soft in touch or skill.

adjective. Measuring, indicating, or responding to very small changes; precise.

Pleasing to any of the senses, especially to the sense of taste; dainty; delicious: opposed to coarse or rough.

Agreeable; delightful; charming.

Fine in characteristic details; minutely perfect in kind; exquisite in form, proportions, finish, texture, manner, or the like; nice; dainty; charming: as, a delicate being; a delicate skin or fabric; delicate tints.

Of a fine or refined constitution; refined.

Nice in construction or operation; exquisitely adjusted or adapted; minutely accurate or suitable: as, a delicate piece of mechanism; a delicate balance or spring.

Requiring nicety in action; to be approached or performed with caution; precarious; ticklish: as, a delicate surgical operation; a delicate topic of conversation.

Nice in perception or action; exquisitely acute or dexterous; finely sensitive or exact; deft: as, a delicate touch; a delicate performer or performance.

Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by attention to the opinions and feelings of others; refined: as, delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.

Susceptible to disease or injury; of a tender constitution; feeble; not able to endure hardship: as, a delicate frame or constitution; delicate health.

Nice in perception of what is agreeable to the senses or the intellect; peculiarly sensitive to beauty, harmony, or their opposites; dainty; fastidious: as, a delicate taste; a delicate eye for color.

Full of pleasure; luxurious; sumptuous; delightful.

Synonyms Pleasant, delicious, palatable, savory. Fastidious, discriminating. Sensitive.

noun. Something savory, luscious, or delicious; a delicacy; a dainty.

noun. A fastidious person.

adjective. Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

adjective. Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant

adjective. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.”

adjective. Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like.

adjective. Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture.

adjective. Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface

adjective. Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color.

adjective. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings

adjective. Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.

adjective. Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical.

adjective. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.

adjective. Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite

adjective. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.

noun. A choice dainty; a delicacy.

noun. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

adjective. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.

adjective. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.

adjective. Intended for use with fragile items.

adjective. Of weak health, easily sick.

adjective. Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.

noun. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.

noun. A choice dainty; a delicacy.

noun. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

"All fine colouring, like fine drawing, is _delicate_; and so delicate that if, at last, you"

brittle  ethereal  palatable  sensitive  slender  

breakable  dainty  difficult  ethereal  exquisite  

delicacy  delicately  delicatessen  delicious  delight  

beautiful  exquisite  graceful  soft  subtle  

Herculean  Victorian  abstruse  accommodating  accommodative