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Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
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- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
- Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed.
Not strong or substantial; slight:
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- Not strong or substantial; slight:
- Easily led astray; morally weak.
- Easily broken, shattered, damaged, or destroyed; fragile; delicate
Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
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- Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
- Satisfactory; acceptable:
- Thin; slender:
Especially sensitive; highly impressionable:
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- Especially sensitive; highly impressionable:
- Permitting an action to be performed; capable of undergoing something:
- Easily affected emotionally; having a sensitive nature or feelings
Weak; not strong
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- Weak; not strong
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Easily broken; frail
Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
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- Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
- Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
- Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
Needing careful handling; precarious; delicate
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- Needing careful handling; precarious; delicate
- Very sensitive or easily upset; touchy
- Sensitive to tickling.
Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
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- Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
- Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
- Easily irritated:
Dangerously lacking in security or stability:
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- Dangerously lacking in security or stability:
- Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises:
- Subject to chance or unknown conditions:
(Archaic) Noble; chivalrous:
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- (Archaic) Noble; chivalrous:
- Not steep or sudden; gradual:
- Not harsh or severe; mild and soft:
Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
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- Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
- Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
- Easily irritated:
Showing or acting with careful attention to detail:
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- Showing or acting with careful attention to detail:
- Difficult to please; exacting:
- Excessively scrupulous or sensitive, as in taste, propriety, or neatness:
dainty
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sick
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weak
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dangerous
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unstable
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careful
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refined
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tactful
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Of the US Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.
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- Of the US Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.
- Selected with care; well-chosen:
- Of very fine quality:
Delicately pretty or lovely
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- Delicately pretty or lovely
- Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small:
- Delicious and choice
Marked by concision, incisiveness, and ingenuity; cleverly apt and simple
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- Marked by concision, incisiveness, and ingenuity; cleverly apt and simple
- Characterized by dignified richness and grace, as of design, dress, style, etc.; luxurious or opulent in a restrained, tasteful manner
- (Informal) Excellent; fine; first-rate
Carefully done or elaborately made
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- Carefully done or elaborately made
- Excellent or outstanding, especially by exhibiting or appealing to refined taste:
- Very beautiful or lovely, esp. in a delicate or carefully wrought way
Satisfactory; acceptable:
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- Satisfactory; acceptable:
- Used as an intensive:
- Excellent in character or ability:
Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
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- Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
Having little intensity or strength; faint:
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- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Easily broken; frail
- Weak; not strong
Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
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- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
- Physically weak; frail; delicate
Easily broken, shattered, damaged, or destroyed; fragile; delicate
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- Easily broken, shattered, damaged, or destroyed; fragile; delicate
- Easily led astray; morally weak.
- Slender and delicate; not robust; weak
Not stable, firm, or sound; frail; shaky, as a structure
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- Not stable, firm, or sound; frail; shaky, as a structure
- Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
- Not strong or stable; shaky:
(Chiefly Southern US) Sickly; ill.
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- (Chiefly Southern US) Sickly; ill.
- Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
Not safe, firm, or solid; insecure
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- Not safe, firm, or solid; insecure
- Not true or logically valid; fallacious:
- Not dependably strong or solid.
Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
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- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- (Archaic) Alternative form of insubstantial.
- Lacking basis in fact.
Lacking vitality; feeble; infirm
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- Lacking vitality; feeble; infirm
- Lacking aptitude or skill:
- Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing:
- Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
- Sickly; feeble; weak
Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.
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- Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.
- Likely to break, snap, or crack, as when subjected to pressure:
- Easily damaged or disrupted; fragile:
Physically weak; frail; delicate
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- Physically weak; frail; delicate
- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
Capable of being broken; breakable.
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- Capable of being broken; breakable.
- Breakable; fragile
Describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
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- Describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
- Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
- Using or marked by tact and sensitivity in dealing with others.
Careful about what one says or does; prudent; esp., keeping silent or preserving confidences when necessary
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- Careful about what one says or does; prudent; esp., keeping silent or preserving confidences when necessary
- Possessed of, exercising, or showing prudence and self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect:
- Made, done, or situated so as to attract little notice:
Showing sound or pragmatic judgment; prudent; judicious:
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- Showing sound or pragmatic judgment; prudent; judicious:
- Having practical wisdom; prudent; shrewd; diplomatic
- Discreet and diplomatic.
Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
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- Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
- Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
- Easily irritated:
Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
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- Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
- Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
- Easily irritated:
Needing careful handling; precarious; delicate
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- Needing careful handling; precarious; delicate
- Very sensitive or easily upset; touchy
- Sensitive to tickling.
Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
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- Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
- Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
- Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
Hard to deal with, complicated
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- Hard to deal with, complicated
- Requiring great skill or care
- Requiring caution or skill:
Pleasantly warm and breezy
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- Pleasantly warm and breezy
- Having the qualities of balm; soothing, fragrant, etc.
- Mild and pleasant:
Lacking clarity or distinctness:
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- Lacking clarity or distinctness:
- Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak:
- So weak as to be difficult to perceive;
Not violent, harsh, or rough
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- Not violent, harsh, or rough
- Easily managed or handled; docile:
- Not harsh or severe; mild and soft:
Gentle or kind in disposition, action, or effect; not severe, harsh, bitter, etc.
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- Gentle or kind in disposition, action, or effect; not severe, harsh, bitter, etc.
- Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force:
- Having a soft, pleasant taste or flavor; not strong, sour, bitter, biting, or sharp
Delicately pleasing to the ear; not harsh or grating:
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- Delicately pleasing to the ear; not harsh or grating:
- Having a fine texture:
- Easy-going; serene:
Not stern; lenient:
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- Not stern; lenient:
- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Mild; balmy:
Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
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- Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
- Satisfactory; acceptable:
- Thin; slender:
Having a pleasant or attractive appearance:
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- Having a pleasant or attractive appearance:
- Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle:
- Exhibiting courtesy and politeness:
Delicately suggestive; not grossly obvious
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- Delicately suggestive; not grossly obvious
- Difficult to understand; abstruse:
- Capable of making or noticing fine distinctions in meaning, etc.
Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
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- Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
- Satisfactory; acceptable:
- Thin; slender:
Having a pleasant or attractive appearance:
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- Having a pleasant or attractive appearance:
- Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle:
- Exhibiting courtesy and politeness:
Free from crudeness or coarseness; cultivated; elegant
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- Free from crudeness or coarseness; cultivated; elegant
- Made free from other matter, or from impurities; purified
- Precise to a fine degree.
Delicately suggestive; not grossly obvious
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- Delicately suggestive; not grossly obvious
- Difficult to understand; abstruse:
- Capable of making or noticing fine distinctions in meaning, etc.
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