Delicate
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- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
- Those clothes are delicate
- The negotiations were very delicate
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
- Her face was delicate
- The spider wove a delicate web
- There was a delicate pattern of frost on the window
- Intended for use with fragile items.
- Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle
- Of weak health, easily sick.
- Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
- Please don't speak so loudly - I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning
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Etymology
From Middle English delicat < Latin delicatus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, in Medieval Latin also fine, slender”) < delicia, usually in plural deliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”) < delicere (“to allure”) < de (“away”) + lacere (“to allure, entice”).
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