Meaning

adjective exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

adjective marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique

adjective easily broken or damaged or destroyed

originFrom Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, (in Medieval Latin also) fine, slender”), from dēlicia + -ātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), usually in plural dēliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”), from dēliciō (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”),…

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