- Types Of Speech
- You can use delicate as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Delicate
- A 3 syllables article and 8 letters with the letters a, c, d, e, i, l, and t, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ic. Delicate starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters d, de, del, deli, delic, and the ending characters are e, te, ate, cate, icate, ..
- Definition
- Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Compound Words
- A compound word, delicate has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are deli, and cate.
- School Grade
- Delicate is set as a grade five word that starts with d, ends with e, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Delicate in Pig Latin is said as "elicateday or elicatedway".
- Unigram
- d | e | l | i | c | a | t | e
- Bigram
- de | el | li | ic | ca | at | te
- Trigram
- del | eli | lic | ica | cat | ate
- Quadrigram
- deli | elic | lica | icat | cate
- Word Gram
- Article Examples
- exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing;
susceptible to injury;
"a delicate violin passage";
"delicate china";
"a delicate flavor";
"the delicate wing of a butterfly"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed;
"a kite too delicate to fly safely";
"fragile porcelain plates";
"fragile old bones";
"a frail craft" - difficult to handle;
requiring great tact;
"delicate negotiations with the big powers";
"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter" - developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety;
"the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" - of an instrument or device;
capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely;
"almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments" - marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique;
"a surgeon's delicate touch" - easily hurt;
"soft hands";
"a baby's delicate skin"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstruse | difficult to penetrate incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge "the professor''s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them" "a deep metaphysical theory" "some recondite problem in historiography" |
| Accommodating | helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in" "made a special effort to be accommodating" |
| Accommodative | helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in" "made a special effort to be accommodating" |
| Accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy "an accurate reproduction" "the accounting was accurate" "accurate measurements" "an accurate scale" |
| Ace | a serve that the receiver is unable to reach |
| Adept | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field |
| Advertent | giving attention |
| Aerial | a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer |
| Aeriform | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality as impalpable or intangible as air "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle "aerial fancies" "an airy apparition" "physical rather than ethereal forms" |
| Aery | any habitation at a high altitude |
View all cognitive synonyms for Delicate
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rugged | sturdy and strong in constitution or construction enduring "a rugged trapper who spent months in the winderness" "those that survive are stalwart rugged men" "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing susceptible to injury "a delicate violin passage" "delicate china" "a delicate flavor" "the delicate wing of a butterfly" |
View English words with the unique letters used in delicate. Words With The Letters Acdeilt
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dainty | something considered choice to eat |
| Ethereal | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" |
| Exquisite | of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face" |
| Fragile | vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth" |
| Gossamer | filaments from a cobweb |
| Half Hardy | n/a |
| Light Handed | n/a |
| Overdelicate | extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system" |
| Pastel | any of various pale or light colors |
| Subtle | faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas" |
Similar Words Of Delicate
| See Also | Definition |
|---|---|
| Breakable | an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately" |
| Frail | a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) |
| Weak | overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Negative Feelings | Describe delicate | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
Delicate Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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