- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets
They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling
Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
- Of a person or an animal
The soup is good and hot.
uncountable · better – best
- Well-mannered, civilized
It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.
- delicately small and pretty
- People or things that are subtle (adjective sense) as a class
- Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses
Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
- Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material
fragiler
- thin in substance or consistency
The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
- Consisting of or resembling a wisp
The wispy smoke rose from chimneys all around town.
- finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate
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