Usually means: With careful, gentle, and subtle manner.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. delicately: Merriam-Webster
  2. delicately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delicately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. delicately: Vocabulary.com
  5. Delicately, delicately: Wordnik
  6. delicately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. delicately: Wiktionary
  8. Delicately, delicately: Dictionary.com
  9. delicately: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Delicately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. delicately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. delicately: Rhymezone
  13. Delicately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. delicately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. delicately: FreeDictionary.org
  16. delicately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. delicately: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. delicately: Legal dictionary

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  1. delicately: Encyclopedia

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▸ adverb:  In a delicate manner; exquisitely.
▸ adverb:  Tactfully.

Similar:
exquisitely, fine, finely, daintily, exquisitively, slightly, overdelicately, slenderly, overexquisitely, tenderly, more...

Opposite:
crudely, roughly, coarsely

Types:
fragile, brittle, frail, delicate, more...

Phrases:
delicately balanced, hold delicately, small and delicately built, not delicately, delicately handled, more...

Colors:
    blush,     lavender,     mint,     peach,     powder blue, more...



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Similar:
exquisitely, fine, finely, daintily, exquisitively, slightly, overdelicately, slenderly, overexquisitely, tenderly, more...

Opposite:
crudely, roughly, coarsely

Types:
fragile, brittle, frail, delicate, more...

Phrases:
delicately balanced, hold delicately, small and delicately built, not delicately, delicately handled, touch delicately, delicately fly, more...

Colors:
    blush,     lavender,     mint,     peach,     powder blue, more...



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