delicate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.

   “Those clothes are made from delicate lace.”

2. sıfat Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.

   “Her face was delicate.”

3. sıfat Intended for use with fragile items.

   “Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.”

4. sıfat Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.

   “delicate behaviour”

5. sıfat Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.

   “a delicate child”

6. sıfat Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.

   “Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning.”

7. sıfat Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

   “This [Haarlem] is a very delicate towne, and hath one of the fairest Churches, of the Gotiq design, I had seene.”

8. sıfat Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.

   “a delicate dish”

9. sıfat Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.

   “Caſ[ſio]. She is a moſt exquiſite Lady. […] Indeede ſhe is a moſt freſh and delicate creature.”

10. sıfat Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.

    “a delicate shade of blue”

11. sıfat Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
12. sıfat Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.

    “a delicate taste”

13. sıfat Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.

    “a delicate thermometer”

14. isim A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.

    “Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate!”

15. isim A choice dainty; a delicacy.

    “With Abstinence all Delicates he Sees, / And can regale himself with Toast and Cheese.”

16. isim A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

    “A council of war was called, and the delicates met in the great cabin ; the platform was rigged up on the forecastle, the yard-rope rove, and the signal made for all boats to attend execution”

17. isim A moth of the species Mythimna vitellina.