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Delicate

adjective

Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury. "Delicate china" , "A delicate flavor" , "The delicate wing of a butterfly" Antonym: rugged.

Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique.

Easily broken or damaged or destroyed. Synonyms: fragile, frail. "Fragile porcelain plates" , "Fragile old bones" , "A frail craft"

Easily hurt. Synonym: soft. "A baby's delicate skin"

Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety. Synonym: finespun.

Difficult to handle; requiring great tact. Synonyms: ticklish, touchy. "Hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter" , "A touchy subject"

Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.

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... Sardou was standing, his hands clasped behind him, examining through half-closed eyes a delicate pastel, signed Chaplain—a portrait of Madame Darbois at twenty. At the professor's entry, he turned round and exclaimed with the engaging friendliness that was one of his special charms, "What a very pretty ...

— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt

... and delicate; that cou'd not be mended. But pray, Sir, was this your own? I took it for ...

— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) • Lawrence Echard

... serenity of his old age by the indiscreet garrulity of mine. But the brotherhood between him and Lowell brought our lives together, and Lowell was the pole to which both our needles swung. Norton's delicate health made it impossible for him to take part in the excursions made by the Club, though he was ...

— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James

... tell My people there's a limit to the size of the lettering,' he said. 'Overdo that and the ret'na doesn't take it in. Advertisin' is the most delicate of ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... I've bin thinkin', lad (pull), that you'll have to (puff)—there's somethin' wrong with the pipe to-night, it don't draw well (puff)—you'll have to do somethin' or other in the town, for it won't do to leave the old woman, lad, in her delicate state o' health. Had she turned in when ...

— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne

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