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"delicate negotiations with the big powers"adjectivedifficult to handle; requiring great tact
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"a kite too delicate to fly safely"adjectiveeasily broken or damaged or destroyed
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"a baby's delicate skin"adjectiveeasily hurt
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adjectivedeveloped with extreme delicacy and subtlety
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"a delicate violin passage" "delicate china" "a delicate flavor" "the delicate wing of a butterfly"adjectiveexquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injuryOpposite:
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"a surgeon's delicate touch"adjectivemarked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
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"almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"adjectiveof an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
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Definition that contains delicate
- taste delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- exquisite delicately beautiful
- appreciation delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- dainty delicately beautiful
- filigree delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
- pastel delicate and pale in color
- discernment delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- perceptiveness delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- common maidenhair delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
- hartford fern delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds