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Delicate
DELICATE, a. [L. Connected with delight; to delight.]
1. Of a fine texture; fine; soft; smooth; clear, or fair; as a delicate skin.
2. Nice; pleasing to the taste; of an agreeable flavor; as delicate food; a delicate dish.
3. Nice in perception of what is agreeable; dainty; as a delicate taste; and figuratively, nice and discriminating in beauty and deformity.
4. Nice; accurate; fine; soft to the eye; as a delicate color.
5. Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by condescension and attention to the wishes and feelings of others; as delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.
6. Pleasing to the senses; as a delicate flavor.
7. Fine; slender; minute; as a delicate thread.
8. That cannot be handled without injury or danger; that must be touched with care; as a delicate point or topic; a delicate question.
9. Composed of fine threads, or nicely interwoven; as a delicate texture; hence, soft and smooth to the touch; as delicate silk.
10. Tender; effeminate; not able to endure hardship; very impressible to injury; as a delicate frame or constitution.
11. Feeble; not sound or robust; as delicate health.
DELICATE, n. Any thing nice; a nicety.
delicate appears in definitions for these words:
Accola Amianthus Anacreontic Asbestos Attic Barm Birdsnest Broad Burbot Byssolite Celestin Coarse Column Contexture Corinthian Craw-fish Dainty Dedalous Delicate Delicately Delicateness Doucine Ear Eelpout Effeminate Elegance Elegant Enough Euphemism Fastidious Female Feminine Filigrane Fine Finely Fineness Finger Fingering Gross Humor Juncate Lady-like Lily-handed Madrigal Masculine Migniard Miniardize Muffin Murrhine Nice Nicely Nicety Parrot Pheasant Queasy Refine Roballo Rough Rump Sanded Silken Smelt Soft Squirrel Stubbed Sturdy Subtil Subtly Sweeten Tender Tidbit Trill Trout Velveted Velvety Vermil Web White-bait Winter Wittily
Accola Amianthus Anacreontic Asbestos Attic Barm Birdsnest Broad Burbot Byssolite Celestin Coarse Column Contexture Corinthian Craw-fish Dainty Dedalous Delicate Delicately Delicateness Doucine Ear Eelpout Effeminate Elegance Elegant Enough Euphemism Fastidious Female Feminine Filigrane Fine Finely Fineness Finger Fingering Gross Humor Juncate Lady-like Lily-handed Madrigal Masculine Migniard Miniardize Muffin Murrhine Nice Nicely Nicety Parrot Pheasant Queasy Refine Roballo Rough Rump Sanded Silken Smelt Soft Squirrel Stubbed Sturdy Subtil Subtly Sweeten Tender Tidbit Trill Trout Velveted Velvety Vermil Web White-bait Winter Wittily
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