delicate
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
Example
“Those clothes are made from delicate lace.”
Other meanings
Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
“Her face was delicate.”
Intended for use with fragile items.
“Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.”
Related words
- delicateness
- hyperdelicate
- overdelicate
- semidelicate
- superdelicate
- ultradelicate
- undelicate
- indelicate
Word history
From Middle English "delicat".
Where this comes from
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