DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: NOUN
- A choice dainty; a delicacy.
- A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
- Something savory, luscious, or delicious; a delicacy; a dainty.
- A fastidious person.
- A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
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DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: ADJECTIVE
- Measuring, indicating, or responding to very small changes; precise.
- Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
- Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant
- Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like.
- Fine or soft in touch or skill.
- Requiring careful or tactful treatment.
- Having or showing great consideration or care.
- Very subtle in difference or distinction.
- Marked by sensitivity of discrimination.
- Frail in constitution or health.
- Exquisitely fine or dainty: : exquisite.
- Easily broken or damaged.
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way.
- Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
- Difficult to handle; requiring great tact
- Easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
- Easily hurt
- Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
- Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.”
- Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
- Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
- Intended for use with fragile items.
- Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture.
- Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface
- Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color.
- Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings
- Of weak health, easily sick.
- Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical.
- Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
- Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite
- Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
- Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.
- Hard to control
- Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
- Hard, not easy, requiring much effort
- Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn.
- Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
- Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
- Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain.
- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying.
- Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish.
- Requiring much effort and trouble
- Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: VERB
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- To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Pleasing to any of the senses, especially to the sense of taste; dainty; delicious: opposed to coarse or rough.
- Susceptible to injury
- Difficult to handle
- Requiring great tact
- Of an instrument or device
- Agreeable; delightful; charming.
- Fine in characteristic details; minutely perfect in kind; exquisite in form, proportions, finish, texture, manner, or the like; nice; dainty; charming: as, a delicate being; a delicate skin or fabric; delicate tints.
- Of a fine or refined constitution; refined.
- Nice in construction or operation; exquisitely adjusted or adapted; minutely accurate or suitable: as, a delicate piece of mechanism; a delicate balance or spring.
- Requiring nicety in action; to be approached or performed with caution; precarious; ticklish: as, a delicate surgical operation; a delicate topic of conversation.
- Nice in perception or action; exquisitely acute or dexterous; finely sensitive or exact; deft: as, a delicate touch; a delicate performer or performance.
- Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by attention to the opinions and feelings of others; refined: as, delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.
- Susceptible to disease or injury; of a tender constitution; feeble; not able to endure hardship: as, a delicate frame or constitution; delicate health.
- Nice in perception of what is agreeable to the senses or the intellect; peculiarly sensitive to beauty, harmony, or their opposites; dainty; fastidious: as, a delicate taste; a delicate eye for color.
- Full of pleasure; luxurious; sumptuous; delightful.
- Synonyms Pleasant, delicious, palatable, savory. Fastidious, discriminating. Sensitive.
- To make difficult; impede.
- Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.
- Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.
- Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
- Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.
- Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
- Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
- Not easy
- To perplex; embarrass.
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: RELATED WORDS
- Refined, Frail, Hard, Pastel, Fine, Soft, Difficult, Gossamer, Ethereal, Subtle, Ticklish, Dainty, Exquisite, Sensitive, Fragile
- Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Refined, Frail, Hard, Pastel, Fine, Soft, Difficult, Gossamer, Ethereal, Subtle, Ticklish, Dainty, Exquisite, Sensitive, Fragile
- Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- See Democracy as the delicate flower it is.
- Robert Coleman tackles the delicate issue of backsliding.
- They look so delicate, but are extremely hardy.
- They are such soft, delicate and frilly blooms!
- LORD JOHN STEVENS: It was very delicate indeed.
- Tweezers can be helpful to position delicate pieces.
- Use care with delicate equipment to avoid damage.
- Scales are delicate instruments and unlike Cellular phones, scales have delicate sensors that determine how much an item weighs.
- Dry, Delicate Setting: Double lines indicate that the Delicate setting must be used.
- Judy Woodruff: And handled some very delicate, delicate moments.
- It certainly can make for a difficult marriage.
- Find it difficult to get around your bathroom?
- Metaphors are more difficult to teach than similes.
- Times have been so difficult in recent months.
- The use of cryptography is complex and difficult.
- Slow and difficult process to retrieve boarding pass.
- Calamity player, pure summoner would be insanely difficult.
- You are saying it is more difficult, music is more difficult?
- Some dailies are more difficult than others, a lot more difficult.
- Advancing racial equity is already difficult, but then you add the scope and it becomes more difficult.
DELICATE vs DIFFICULT: QUESTIONS
- Where can I find the crossword clue comparatively delicate?
- What makes Snelson's sculptures so strong and delicate?
- Does delicate praline damage hair like other box colors?
- What is meant by delicate realism and illusionistic likeness?
- Why is delicate balance required among various parameters?
- What happens when acid enters the delicate esophagus?
- What makes our delicate silk cotton sarees special?
- What are some interesting facts about Delicate Arch?
- What is delicate wash on Whirlpool washing machine?
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- Why is requirements elicitation and analysis difficult?
- Why is objective irreligiosity difficult to measure?
- Are steroid cycle protocols difficult to understand?
- How to manage conflict and difficult conversations?
- How difficult is electronics and Instrumentation Engineering?
- Why is debugging in software development difficult?
- Should monoglot medievalists bother with difficult languages?
- Are difficult conversations sabotaging your working relationships?
- What causes hyperactivity and difficult concentration?
- How difficult are difficult people in the workplace?