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Delicate

adjective

Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury. "Delicate china" , "A delicate flavor" , "The delicate wing of a butterfly"

Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique.

Easily broken or damaged or destroyed. Synonyms: fragile, frail. "Fragile porcelain plates" , "Fragile old bones" , "A frail craft"

Easily hurt. Synonym: soft. "A baby's delicate skin"

Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety. Synonym: finespun.

Difficult to handle; requiring great tact. Synonyms: ticklish, touchy. "Hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter" , "A touchy subject"

Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.

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... it without discussing these great matters and the laws which guide decorative art generally. It happens conveniently, therefore, as the technical part requires less space, that these things should be treated of in this particular book, and it becomes the author's delicate and difficult task to do so. He, therefore, wishes to make clear at starting the spirit in which the ...

— Stained Glass Work - A text-book for students and workers in glass • C. W. Whall

... perfumed hair and in the most exquisitely careless of morning toilets, from her luxurious dressing-room. She looked at herself in the cheval-glass before she left the room. A long night's rest had brought back the delicate rose-tints of her complexion, and the natural luster of her blue eyes. That unnatural light which had burned so fearfully the day before had gone, and my lady smiled triumphantly as she contemplated the reflection of her beauty. The days were gone in which ...

— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

... smelling; and the gratifications proper to it are the various kinds of fragrance. The love of self-nourishment, grounded in the love of imbibing goods, is the sense of tasting; and the delights proper to it are the various kinds of delicate foods. The love of knowing objects, grounded in the love of circumspection and self-preservation, is the sense of touching, and the gratifications proper to it are the various kinds of titillation. The reason why the love of conjunction ...

— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg

... a foremost place in the production of articles needing delicate workmanship, and it is therefore not surprising that they should at an early period have turned their attention to the art of Violin-making, which requires in a high degree both skilful workmanship and artistic treatment. The French manufacture ...

— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart

... make the lady feel that it was an honor to us to share these things with her, and it was really gratifying to see her calm enjoyment of delicacies to which she had long been a stranger. I think, too, that the fragrant cup of tea and the delicate bit of toast, taken to the sick man, may have brought to his mind tender recollections of a time when he lived like a gentleman, and dispelled for a little while the memory of the family troubles, and the complication of misfortunes which had reduced him to poverty ...

— 'Three Score Years and Ten' - Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other - Parts of the West • Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve

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