Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Adjective
S: (adj) delicate (exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury) "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
S: (adj) delicate (marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique) "a surgeon's delicate touch"
S: (adj) delicate, fragile, frail (easily broken or damaged or destroyed) "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"
S: (adj) finespun, delicate (developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety) "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
S: (adj) delicate, ticklish, touchy (difficult to handle; requiring great tact) "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"
S: (adj) delicate (of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely) "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"