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