Usually means: Easily damaged, fragile, requiring care.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. delicate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. delicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delicate, delicate: Wordnik
  7. delicate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. delicate: Wiktionary
  9. delicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Delicate, delicate: Dictionary.com
  13. delicate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delicate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Delicate (Taylor Swift song), Delicate (Terence Trent D'Arby song), Delicate (album), Delicate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Delicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. delicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. delicate: Rhymezone
  19. delicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. delicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. delicate: Free Dictionary
  22. delicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. delicate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. delicate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delicate: Legal dictionary

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  1. delicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delicate: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. delicate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Delicate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See delicately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
adjective:  Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
adjective:  Intended for use with fragile items.
adjective:  Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
adjective:  Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
adjective:  (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
adjective:  (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
adjective:  Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
adjective:  Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
adjective:  Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
adjective:  Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
adjective:  Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
adjective:  Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
noun:  A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
noun:  (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
noun:  (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
noun:  A moth, Mythimna vitellina

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