Delicacy Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕlĭ-kə-sē
Fineness of texture
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. airiness
  2. daintiness
  3. etherealness
  4. transparency
  5. fragility
  6. flimsiness
  7. softness
  8. smoothness
  9. translucency
  10. filminess
  11. slightness
  12. tenuity
  13. diaphanousness
  14. subtlety
  15. tenderness
  16. exquisiteness
  17. gracefulness
Antonyms:
  1. coarseness
  2. indelicacy
  3. indiscrimination
  4. roughness
  5. heaviness
  6. inelegance
  7. robustness
A choice food
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dainty
  2. goody
  3. tidbit
  4. treat
  5. morsel
  6. delight
  7. luxury
  8. daintiness
  9. fineness
  10. gourmet dish
  11. sweet
  12. savory
  13. rarity
  14. ambrosia
  15. discrimination
  16. elegance
  17. nectar
  18. exactness
  19. party dish
  20. fastidiousness
  21. sweetmeat
  22. imported food
  23. finesse
  24. food out of season
  25. frailty
  26. bonne bouche (French)
  27. junket
  28. specialty
  29. nicety
  30. food for the gods
  31. pleasure
  32. taste
  33. precision
  34. propriety
  35. refinement
  36. savoir-faire
  37. sensitiveness
  38. slenderness
  39. tact
  40. kickshaw
Lack of strength, usually to resist disease
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. debility
  2. frailty
  3. weakness
  4. fragility
  5. decrepitude
  6. delicateness
  7. feebleness
  8. flimsiness
  9. fragileness
  10. frailness
  11. infirmity
  12. insubstantiality
  13. puniness
  14. unsoundness
  15. tenderness
  16. unsubstantiality
  17. weakliness
  18. breakableness
  19. crackability
  20. fissility
  21. crumbliness
  22. crushability
  23. nonrigidity
  24. pulpiness
  25. sponginess
  26. morbidezza
  27. unsafeness
  28. hazardousness
  29. plushiness
Subtly skillful handling of a situation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. discretion
  2. diplomacy
  3. discreetness
  4. finesse

Words Related to Delicacy

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Delicacy Sentence Examples

  • Delicacy of health compelled his retirement in the autumn of 1835.

  • The flesh of the American beaver is eaten by the Indians, and when roasted in the skin is esteemed a delicacy and is said to taste like pork.

  • Her singing was both warmth of sound and delicacy of nuance.

  • Thus the restoration and interpretation of the poems is one of peculiar delicacy and difficulty.

  • The imperfections of the thermopile, with which he began his work, led him, about 1880, to the invention of the bolometer, an instrument of extraordinary delicacy, which in its most refined form is believed to be capable of detecting a change of temperature amounting to less than one-hundred-millionth of a degree Centigrade.

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