delicate

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
2. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
3. Intended for use with fragile items.
4. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
5. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
6. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
7. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
8. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
9. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
10. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
11. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
12. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
13. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.

Noun

1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
2. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
3. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
4. A moth, Mythimna vitellina.

Conceptes

delicat

fi fina

esmolat

exquisit

fi

perspicaç

picant

puntegut

puntut

punxegut

subtil

perillós

trencadís

fràgil

sensible

mòrbid

agut

finíssim

enginyós

Sinònims

fine

fragile

soft

tender

sensitive

weak

dainty

frail

gentle

refined

subtle

slender

thin

exquisite

brittle

feeble

slim

breakable

slight

smooth

sickly

touchy

minute

graceful

light

ticklish

nice

elaborate

silky

detailed

accurate

sweet

supple

tactful

infirm

keen

elegant

frangible

lissome

subtile

mild

young

difficult

acute

decrepit

dangerous

risky

sharp

shiny

finespun

Traduccions

délicat

delicado

delicato

fragile

zart

empfindlich

sensible

fin

🔚

delikat

fragile

fijn

zierlich

fein

heikel

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdɛlɪkət/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: delicat

Cognat amb espanyol: delgado

In summary

From Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, (in Medieval Latin also) fine, slender”), from dēlicia + -ātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), usually in plural dēliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”), from dēliciō (“I allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“I lure, I deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare delight, delicious and Spanish delgado (“thin, skinny”). The noun is from a substantivization of the adjective (see -ate).