Crossword-Solution: DELICATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Delicate | a. | Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. |
| Delicate | a. | Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor. |
| Delicate | a. | Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature." |
| Delicate | a. | Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton. |
| Delicate | a. | Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk. |
| Delicate | a. | Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion. |
| Delicate | a. | Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue. |
| Delicate | a. | Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness. |
| Delicate | a. | Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health. |
| Delicate | a. | Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question. |
| Delicate | a. | Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious. |
| Delicate | a. | Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music. |
| Delicate | a. | Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer. |
| Delicate | n. | A choice dainty; a delicacy. |
| Delicate | n. | A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. |
We have 116 clues for the answer “DELICATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "A ___ Balance" (Pulitzer-winning Albee play) | 1 answer |
| Albee's "A ___ Balance" | 1 answer |
| Fine in texture. | 1 answer |
| Like fine lace | 1 answer |
| Like spun glass | 1 answer |
| REQUIRING careful handling | 1 answer |
| Requiring tact | 1 answer |
| Slight and subtle. | 1 answer |
| fracturable | 5 answers |
| shattery | 7 answers |
| Easily broken | 7 answers |
| Weightless | 8 answers |
| frangible | 8 answers |
| Lacy | 8 answers |
| REQUIRING care | 10 answers |
| Recherch | 11 answers |
| Hairline | 11 answers |
| Queasy | 13 answers |
| anaemic | 14 answers |
| Gimcrack | 14 answers |
| flaky | 14 answers |
| Squeamish. | 15 answers |
| SOFT person | 15 answers |
| cobweb | 16 answers |
| breakable | 16 answers |
| pansy | 16 answers |
| Gauzy | 18 answers |
| womanlike | 18 answers |
| womanly | 19 answers |
| ladylike | 21 answers |
| sissy | 22 answers |
| finicky | 23 answers |
| Brittle | 23 answers |
| FEEBLE in body | 24 answers |
| eyeful | 24 answers |
| anemic | 26 answers |
| Feminine | 26 answers |
| Tenuous | 26 answers |
| incorporeal | 27 answers |
| Gossamer | 27 answers |
| glassy | 30 answers |
| Unsubstantial | 31 answers |
| entrancing | 31 answers |
| effeminate | 31 answers |
| Palatable | 32 answers |
| infirm | 33 answers |
| Sheltered | 34 answers |
| Ethereal | 38 answers |
| stunner | 38 answers |
| Captivating | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DELICATE (5)
But what to do with Wendy in her present delicate state of health? “Let us carry her down into the house,” Curly suggested.
Alexandra I II III TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH ORNE JEWETT IN WHOSE BEAUTIFUL AND DELICATE WORK THERE IS THE PERFECTION THAT ENDURES PRAIRIE SPRING Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky.
But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
You who have never seen the like can scarcely imagine what delicate and wonderful flowers countless years of culture had created.
Like so many other tradeoffs in software design, the choice between brute force and complex, finely-tuned cleverness is often a difficult one that requires both engineering savvy and delicate esthetic judgment.
Quotes with DELICATE (3)
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your li…
I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to kno…
The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out all history and activity untouched with beauty and peace; and now when I looked at my Crevelli and pondered on the rose in the hand of the Virgin, wherein the form was so delicate and precise that it seemed more like a thought than a flower, or at the grey dawn and rapturous faces of my Francesca, I knew all a Christian's…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1954–2021).