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| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, weak |
| Synonyms: | aerial, balmy, breakable, choice, delectable, delicious, delightful, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, faint, filmy, fine, flimsy, fragile, frail, gauzy, gentle, graceful, mild, nice, pale, pastel, rare, select, slight, soft, subdued, subtle, superior, tender, fine-grained, finespun, fracturable, frangible, gossamery, hairline, muted, recherché, shatterable, shattery |
| Antonyms: | coarse, harsh, heavy, indelicate, inelegant, robust, rough, strong |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickly |
| Synonyms: | ailing, debilitated, decrepit, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, infirm, slender, slight, susceptible, tender, unhealthy, weak, shatterable, shattery |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, strong |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fussy, discriminating |
| Synonyms: | alert, careful, critical, dainty, fastidious, finicky, gentle, nice, particular, persnickety, prudish, pure, refined, scrupulous, sensitive, squeamish, thin-skinned, finical, finicking |
| Antonyms: | indelicate, uncritical, imprecise, indiscriminating |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, sticky (situation) |
| Synonyms: | critical, precarious, sensitive, ticklish, touchy, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, volatile, hair-trigger |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, tactful |
| Synonyms: | accurate, adept, cautious, considerate, deft, detailed, diplomatic, discreet, expert, heedful, masterly, minute, politic, precise, proficient, prudent, sensitive, skilled, tactical, wary, foresighted |
| Antonyms: | indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, unscrupulous, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | beautiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically attractive |
| Synonyms: | admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy*, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, wonderful, beauteous, bewitching, enticing, pulchritudinous, sightly, taking, well-formed |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, grotesque, hideous, homely, offensive, plain, repulsive, ugly, unattractive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily hurt or destroyed |
| Synonyms: | brittle, crisp, crumbly, delicate, flimsy, fragile, frail, friable, vitreous, weak, crispy, fracturable, frangible, shatterable, shattery, splintery |
| Antonyms: | durable, sturdy, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | charming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captivating |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, alluring, amiable, appealing, attractive, charismatic, choice, cute, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, desirable, elegant, engaging, engrossing, entrancing, eye-catching, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pleasing, provocative, rapturous, ravishing, seductive, sweet, tempting, winning, winsome, bewitching, electrifying, enamoring, enthralling, infatuating, magnetizing, seducing, tantalizing, titillating |
| Antonyms: | frightening, irritating, offensive, repellent, repulsive, terrifying, repulsing |
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delectable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicious, enjoyable |
| Synonyms: | adorable, agreeable, ambrosial, appetizing, charming, choice, dainty, darling, delicate, delightful, divine, exquisite, gratifying, heavenly, inviting, luscious, lush, palatable, pleasant, pleasurable, rare, sapid, satisfying, savory, scrumptious, tasty, toothsome, yummy, delish, enticing |
| Notes: | delightful is more general than delectable which describes a sensual experience |
| Antonyms: | bad, disagreeable, horrible, nauseating, offensive, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, unsatisfying |
| Main Entry: | deluxe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superior, plush |
| Synonyms: | choice, costly, dainty, delicate, elegant, exclusive, expensive, exquisite, first-class, grand, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, opulent, palatial, posh, rare, rich, ritzy, select, special, splendid, sumptuous, super, swanky, recherché, swank |
| Antonyms: | inferior, poor |
| Main Entry: | diaphanous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, see-through |
| Synonyms: | clear, delicate, filmy, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, light, pellucid, pure, sheer, thin, translucent, transparent, chiffon, cobweblike |
| Antonyms: | opaque, thick |
| Main Entry: | diplomatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | politic, tactful |
| Synonyms: | adept, arch, artful, astute, bland, brainy, cagey, calculating, capable, clever, conciliatory, courteous, crafty, cunning, deft, delicate, dexterous, discreet, gracious, intriguing, polite, prudent, savvy, scheming, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, sly, smooth, strategic, suave, subtle, wily, conniving, contriving, guileful, opportunistic |
| Antonyms: | artless, impolite, rude, tactless |
| Main Entry: | elegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, tasteful |
| Synonyms: | affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, chic, choice, classic, clever, comely, courtly, cultured, dainty, delicate, dignified, effective, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, grand, handsome, ingenious, luxurious, majestic, modish, neat, nice, noble, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, polished, rare, refined, rich, select, simple, stately, stuffy, stylish, sumptuous, superior, turgid, well-bred, cultivated, ornamented, recherché, stylized |
| Antonyms: | crude, inelegant, rough, ugly, unfashionable, unrefined, unsophisticated, untasteful |
| Main Entry: | elfin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous; small |
| Synonyms: | delicate, devilish, disobedient, elfish, frolicsome, impish, little, minute, naughty, petite, playful, puckish, puny, slight, sprightly, tiny, misbehaving, prankish, rascally |
| Main Entry: | embarrassing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | humiliating, shaming |
| Synonyms: | awkward, confusing, delicate, difficult, disagreeable, distressing, disturbing, equivocal, impossible, inconvenient, inopportune, perplexing, puzzling, sensitive, shameful, sticky, ticklish, touchy, tricky, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpropitious, unseemly, worrisome, bewildering, compromising, discomfiting, discommoding, discommodious, disconcerting, distracting, exasperating, incommodious, mortifying, rattling, troubling, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, unshameful |
| Main Entry: | feeble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong; ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aged, ailing, chicken*, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey*, effete, enervated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby*, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sickly, slight, tame, thin, unconvincing, weak, weakened, woozy*, zero*, emasculated, enfeebled, etiolated, out of gas, sapless, strengthless, vitiated, weakly, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fragile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, dainty |
| Synonyms: | brittle, crisp, crumbly, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fine, flimsy, frail, friable, infirm, insubstantial, slight, unsound, weak, fracturable, frangible, shatterable, shivery, weakly |
| Antonyms: | durable, firm, strong, tough, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fragile, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wishy-washy*, wispy, fracturable, frangible, shatterable, shattery, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gauzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | see-through, gossamer in texture |
| Synonyms: | delicate, diaphanous, filmy, flimsy, insubstantial, light, lucid, pellucid, sheer, thin, translucent, transparent, tiffany |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, foggy, heavy, opaque, thick, obscured |
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