DICTOMETER

DELICATE

(delicate, delgado, delicadamente, delicado, fino, delikat, fintfølende, sart, ømfintlig)

1. Synonyms:
   • Delicate
   Definitions:
   • exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing
   • susceptible to injury
   Examples:
   • A delicate violin passage
   • Delicate china
   • A delicate flavor
   • The delicate wing of a butterfly
   Antonyms:
   • RUGGED
   • knockabout
   • sturdy, tough
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Delicate
   Definitions:
   • marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
   Examples:
   • A surgeon's delicate touch
   Antonyms:
   • Unskilled
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Delicate
   • Fragile
   • Frail
   Definitions:
   • easily broken or damaged or destroyed
   Examples:
   • A kite too delicate to fly safely
   • Fragile porcelain plates
   • Fragile old bones
   • A frail craft
   Antonyms:
   • Unbreakable
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Delicate
   • Soft
   Definitions:
   • easily hurt
   Examples:
   • Soft hands
   • A baby's delicate skin
   Antonyms:
   • Tough
   • Toughened
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Finespun
   • Delicate
   Definitions:
   • developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
   Examples:
   • The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense
   Antonyms:
   • Unrefined
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Delicate
   • Ticklish
   • Touchy
   Definitions:
   • difficult to handle
   • requiring great tact
   Examples:
   • Delicate negotiations with the big powers
   • Hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter
   • A touchy subject
   Antonyms:
   • Easy
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Delicate
   Definitions:
   • of an instrument or device
   • capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
   Examples:
   • Almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments
   Antonyms:
   • Insensitive