Synonyms of the word

delicate

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

breakable

• adj. Able to be broken.
• adj. Fragile.
• n. Something that is (easily) breakable.
• n. (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically…

dainty

• n. (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
• n. A delicacy.
• n. (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event…
• n. (obsolete) An affectionate term of address.
• adj. (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
• adj. Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
• adj. Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

ethereal

• adj. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the…
• adj. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy,…
• adj. Delicate, light and airy.
• adj. (chemistry) To do with ether.

exquisite

• adj. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
• adj. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
• adj. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
• adj. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
• adj. Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
• adj. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
• n. (rare) Fop, dandy.

finespun

• adj. spun into a fine thread.
• adj. delicate and subtle, with fine detail.

fragile

• adj. Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.

frail

• adj. Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily…
• adj. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
• n. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
• n. The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
• n. A rush for weaving baskets.
• n. (dated, slang) A girl.
• v. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

gossamer

• n. A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
• n. A soft, sheer fabric.
• n. Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
• adj. Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

half-hardy

• adj. (botany) Of a plant: requiring protection against frost.
• n. (botany) A plant that requires protection against frost.

hard

• adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. Unquestionable.
• adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
• adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
• adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
• adv. (manner) With difficulty.
• adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
• adv. (manner) Compactly.
• adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
• n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

light-handed

• adj. Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention.
• adj. Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts.
• adj. Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous;.
• adj. Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.
• adj. flippant; lacking seriousness.
• adj. (nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.
• adj. Thieving, larcenous.
• adj. (food) Fresh and light-tasting, not rich, heavy, or highly seasoned.
• adj. (obsolete) Having or requiring little strength.
• adv. Carrying very little.
• adv. In a light-handed manner.

overdelicate

• adj. Excessively delicate.

pastel

• n. Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender.
• n. A drawing made with any of those colors.
• n. A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
• n. A crayon made from such a paste.
• n. A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.

refined

• v. simple past tense and past participle of refine.
• adj. Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly.
• adj. Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly.
• adj. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly.
• adj. (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
• n. (finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.

sensitive

• adj. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
• adj. Responsive to stimuli.
• adj. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
• adj. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
• adj. (of an instrument) Accurate.
• n. One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

skilled

• adj. Having or showing skill; skilful.
• adj. Requiring special abilities or training.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of skill.

soft

• adj. Easily giving way under pressure.
• adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
• adj. (of a sound) Quiet.
• adj. Gentle.
• adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
• adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
• adj. Weak in character; impressible.
• adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
• adj. Not bright or intense.
• adj. Having a slight angle from straight.
• adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
• adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless.
• adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
• adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
• adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
• adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external…
• adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
• adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
• adj. (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
• adj. Agreeable to the senses.
• adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
• interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
• adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
• n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

subtle

• adj. Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable.
• adj. (of a thing) Cleverly contrived.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.
• adj. Insidious.
• adj. Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

ticklish

• adj. Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
• adj. Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.

touchy

• adj. (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable;…
• adj. (of a person) Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish.

untoughened

• adj. Not toughened.

weak

• adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
• adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
• adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
• adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
• adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
• adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
• adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
• adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
• adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
• adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
• adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
• adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
• adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
• adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.