Delicate is valid Scrabble Word

Is delicate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is delicate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for DELICATE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a delicacy
a delicate fabric or garment
A choice dainty; a delicacy.
A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
delicacy

ADJECTIVE:

gently pleasing to the senses
very fine in texture or structure; of intricate workmanship or quality
(of colour) subtle and subdued
(of food or drink) subtly and pleasantly flavoured
easily broken or damaged; fragile

susceptible to illness or adverse conditions
(of a state or condition) easily upset or affected
requiring sensitive or careful handling
tactful and considerate
skilful and finely judged; deft
(of an instrument) highly sensitive.
fine or subtle in quality or workmanship
Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.
Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, \"a delicate creature.\"
Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.
Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.
Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.
Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.
Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.
Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.
Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.
Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.
Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
easily broken or damaged or destroyed
easily hurt
developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
difficult to handle; requiring great tact
of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

Words related to DELICATE

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Words that contain DELICATE

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How to use DELICATE in a sentence

The blood of the young, healthy and vigorous, was transferred into the old and infirm, by means of a delicate tube, placed in a vein opened for that purpose.
The ordinary mode of living is abundant, but not delicate.
This tendency gives to the tree its characteristic size of trunk and branches, and lack of delicate spray.
It must be remembered that indirect vision is much more delicate than direct.
The appointing power is one of the most delicate with which the Executive is invested.
The former is by no means purely comic, but admits the presentation of the noblest motives, the strongest passions, and the most delicate graces of romantic poetry.
Some of his love songs are written with delicate art.
Both figures are in simple and natural taste, but the limbs of the infant are somewhat too thin and delicate.
In the spring, his health was pronounced to be delicate.
They cultivated no land, and the meadow during the brief season supplied them with a profusion of delicate flowers a southern garden could scarcely excel.

Then drain and serve with plenty of sweet butter, and they will be as delicate as peas.
It requires a more delicate sympathy than we can offer.
Each bay, looked at by itself, is not only perfectly logical and coherent in design, but is filled with delicate and appropriate detail.
More delicate and more complicated motives and considerations are introduced into the problem through its influence.
Yeats brought a new and delicate music into literature and that his genius had its birth in a sense of the beauty of common things.
The male in him relished the delicate accusation of his tone.
And Louis, actuated by the most delicate regard for her sensitive modesty, vanished back for a moment into the hall, until she should have fitted herself for his beholding.
Her health still continued so delicate as frequently to occasion her aunt some anxiety.
Lady Jane was but a delicate girl of seventeen, but met her fate with the utmost heroism.
I am just delicate enough to gain the tenderest consideration from all who know me.
He was a man of a pleasing countenance, with features that were delicate and good, and an expression that was mild and agreeable.
They are eaten with fresh Butter melted not too thin, and is a delicate and wholsome Dish.
It is a delicate operation, and one which a clumsy operator may make very painful, and useless, after all.

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