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delicate

English

  1. 🔊 exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing
    “a delicate violin passage”
  2. 🔊 easily broken or damaged or destroyed
    “a kite too delicate to fly safely”
  3. 🔊 difficult to handle
    “delicate negotiations with the big powers”
  4. 🔊 of an instrument or device
    “almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments”
  5. 🔊 marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
    “a surgeon's delicate touch”
  6. 🔊 easily hurt
    “soft hands”
  7. 🔊 developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
    “the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 delgado delicate
  2. 🔊 delicado delicate
  3. 🔊 grácil delicate

Similar words

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