Definitions for delicacy

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delicacy del·i·ca·cy

Spelling: [del-i-kuh-see]

IPA: /ˈdɛl ɪ kə si/

Delicacy is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in delicacy (accdeily).

Definitions for delicacy

noun

1. fineness of texture, quality, etc.; softness; daintiness:
2. something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like:
3. the quality of being easily broken or damaged; fragility.
4. the quality of requiring or involving great care or tact:
5. extreme sensitivity; precision of action or operation; minute accuracy:
6. fineness of perception or feeling; sensitiveness:
7. fineness of feeling with regard to what is fitting, proper, etc.:
8. sensitivity with regard to the feelings of others:
9. bodily weakness; liability to sickness; frailty.
10. Linguistics. (especially in systemic linguistics) the degree of minuteness pursued at a given stage of analysis in specifying distinctions in linguistic description.
11. Obsolete. sensuous indulgence; luxury.

Origin of delicacy

First recorded in 1325-75, delicacy is from the Middle English word delicasie. See delicate, -cy

Examples for delicacy

It will sound strange that dry bread could possibly be a delicacy to any one.

I'm an enemy to their delicacy, as I am sure it conduces to their misery.

But this being a delicate affair, Comrade Ossipon behaved with delicacy.

Mr. Hervey could not be insensible to her distress or to her delicacy.

Fetching French actress Audrey Tautou is back in the romantic drama “delicacy.”

At the time, the island had not yet been named after the delicacy, and went by the decidedly less fantastical Twickenham Ait.

C, lastly, I just think [Perritaz] has a natural taste for purity, delicacy, and ethereal balance.

In their scenes, there is delicacy, there is love, and there is hope.

Whether they are official or not, Chick-fil-A restaurants are designed to represent the Southern delicacy.

I have a feeling of delicacy about trying to see you again so soon.