Synonym: dainty, fine, fragile, frail, light, mild, sensitive, soft, tender. Antonym: coarse, crude, gross, indelicate, rude. Similar words: complicated, deliberately, application, publication, implication, dedicate, indicate, communicate. Meaning: ['delɪkət] 
adj. 1. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury 2. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique 3. easily broken or damaged or destroyed 4. easily hurt 5. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety 6. difficult to handle; requiring great tact 7. of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.
adj. 1. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury 2. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique 3. easily broken or damaged or destroyed 4. easily hurt 5. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety 6. difficult to handle; requiring great tact 7. of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely. 
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151 Instead, Mr Choyce implants a delicate lens between the lens of the eye and the cornea.
152 Then, a little higher, it surprised them, suddenly unveiling green pasture and rose bushes with delicate pink blossom.
153 His face seemed so pale against the dark of her graceful, delicate hand.
154 I hope they can throw some light on a very delicate matter?
155 His health being delicate, Sir Christopher is anxious for him to marry and so sends him off to Bath.
156 His eyelashes flickered into life as he looked up again a shy, delicate glance, like a cornered deer.
157 The forsythia bushes at the back of the santuario yielded a delicate, sweet scent in the dewy air.
158 It handles similar subjects to his - monetary policy,[www.Sentencedict.com] delicate decisions affecting the money markets.
159 In his heart he felt he was betraying something very new and delicate, but he could not stop himself.
160 Their skin is rough and sometimes striped, with a sweet and scented delicate flavour.
161 Waves of ecstatic and delicate color vibrated around me and lulled me to a sense of peace beyond comprehension.
162 The bedroom is wallpapered, both on walls and ceiling, with a delicate tiny pink flower motif on a white background.
163 Difficult as it may be, he should attempt to settle more delicate issues.
164 Football is all right as a game for rough girls but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Oscar Wilde 
165 Then there was a paleness of white trunks and bare delicate branches as they passed through aspens along a slope.
166 Her jewelry was gold(sentencedict.com), delicate chains at her wrist and throat.
167 The steering is pin sharp and the delicate gearshift absolutely superb, swapping the cogs with a velvet action.
168 Bush's choice was of particular importance because of the Court's current delicate political balance.
169 The controversy ran contemporaneous with a delicate question of authority.
170 He knew she was nervous and that this reporter was pressing the superintendent on the most delicate areas of the investigation.
171 Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
172 Her Dose is slender, aquiline, her long neck elegant, chin delicate.
173 Between these, a hundred jellyfish as delicate and as translucent as rose petals pulsate like butterflies.
174 Given that we have victims, we come to the delicate matter of breeding.
175 Smoking adds significantly to the risk because tobacco smoke bathes delicate cervical tissues in tar and nicotine.
176 Check on salt tolerance of your fish especially some of the more delicate catfish before treating.
177 Adenosine helps regulate the delicate balance between blood flow and urine output.
178 Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson
179 To Heather, she seemed delicate looking, poised with her hands loosely clasped in front.
180 Don't put delicate china in the dishwasher - it may crack.
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