Delicacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELICACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a choice food
• fineness or intricacy of texture or structure
• susceptibility to illness or adverse conditions; fragility.
• tact and consideration
• the quality of requiring discretion or sensitivity
• accuracy of perception; sensitiveness.
• a choice or expensive food
• being delicate
• the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
• something considered choice to eat
• refined taste; tact
• smallness of stature
• lack of physical strength
• subtly skillful handling of a situation
• lightness in movement or manner
ADJECTIVE:
• The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
• Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.
• Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
• Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
• Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
• The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist\'s balance.
• That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
• Pleasure; gratification; delight.

Words related to DELICACY

cate6 delicacies15 delice9

Words that contain DELICACY

indelicacy18

How to use DELICACY in a sentence

• Far heavier weights have occurred, and without any deterioration in the delicacy and richness of the flesh.
• Timothy brought home nearly every day some little delicacy for her, which none of the rest thought of sharing.
• He knows not what every wise man knows, of the prudence and delicacy required in a wife.
• The Genealogy of the several Persons is contrived with great Delicacy.
• We could never reconcile our ideas to its being a delicacy.
• It would be certainly too bad to allow a person of his birth and standing in the world to teach one of mine a lesson in delicacy of feeling.
• The regulation of a mind so imaginative, and of feelings so lively and susceptible, required a hand of uncommon skill and delicacy.
• Like Brian! He had failed utterly to comprehend the delicacy of the tribute.
• This ought also to be done with great experience, delicacy, practical knowledge and circumspection.
• He has concealed this feeling from me by his usual refined delicacy.
• Concerning the delicacy of visual discrimination I hope to have something to present in a later paper.
• And more than that, she secretly admired him for the scrupulous delicacy with which he had expressed himself.
• Elinor was not unconscious of her personal attractions, but a natural delicacy of mind made her shrink from general admiration.
• Their decorum and delicacy are striking, and show that, when these are native to the mind, no habits of life make any difference.
• But the parliament was dealing with men who would not be frightened by words, nor retarded by any scrupulous delicacy.
• She estimated the seriousness of a case by danger rather than delicacy.
• This delicacy and tact are as important in the writer as in the diplomat, for the writer quite as much as the diplomat lives by favor.
• The whole picture is quite exquisite for the delicacy of colour and execution.
• With a delicacy of feeling scarcely to have been expected under such circumstances, Wau-bee-nee-mah stretched a mat across two poles, between me and this dreadful scene.
• Her brother was absent, and she felt a delicacy in consulting Deweese, and very naturally turned to me for advice.
• With a tender poetical delicacy, almost worthy of Shakespeare, he sketches his appealing portraits of young girls.
• In addition to fish, they indulge themselves with a delicacy which I have seen them eager to procure.
• But she had the delicacy not to cry out at it, and to make her comments mentally.
• Her face had gained in delicacy and lost nothing of its brilliancy, or of its remarkable clearness of complexion.
• Thou art not in a state to give way to delicacy in the present circumstances.
• In the case of the painter, his eye and mind can appreciate a wide range and delicacy of colour.
• Lucien understood all the self-sacrifice and delicacy of love, fain of its reward.
• We are burning up their substance with every breath in order to have delicacy of feeling and thought.

Similar words containing LICA without suffix cy and without prefix de

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