delicate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kət/    美 /ˈdɛl.ɪ.kɪt/|/ˈdɛl.ə.kɪt/|/ˈdel.ɪ.kɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
    — Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate!
  2. A choice dainty; a delicacy. obsolete
    — With Abstinence all Delicates he Sees, / And can regale himself with Toast and Cheese.
  3. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. obsolete
    — A council of war was called, and the delicates met in the great cabin ; the platform was rigged up on the forecastle, the yard-rope rove, and the signal made for all boats to attend execution
  4. A moth of the species Mythimna vitellina.
形容词 adj.
  1. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
    — Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
  2. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
    — Her face was delicate.
  3. Intended for use with fragile items.
    — Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.
  4. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
    — delicate behaviour
  5. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
    — a delicate child
  6. Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol. informal
    — Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning.
  7. Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. obsolete
    — This [Haarlem] is a very delicate towne, and hath one of the fairest Churches, of the Gotiq design, I had seene.
  8. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
    — a delicate dish
  9. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
    — Caſ[ſio]. She is a moſt exquiſite Lady. […] Indeede ſhe is a moſt freſh and delicate creature.
  10. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
    — a delicate shade of blue
  11. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
  12. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
    — a delicate taste
  13. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
    — a delicate thermometer

词形变化

more delicate comparative delicater comparative most delicate superlative delicatest superlative delicates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
delicateness hyperdelicate indelicate overdelicate semidelicate superdelicate ultradelicate undelicate
相关词
delicacy delicately delicatessen delicious delight

词源

词源 1
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 (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to 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).
词源 2
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 (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to 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).
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