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delicated

delicated adjective: delicate.

Adjective

delicated (comparative more delicated, superlative most delicated)

  1. (rare) Delicate.
    • O mine ſeete, deerſt, kindeſt, mine louing, O mine towſand, ten towſand, delicated, petty ſeet art1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act II
    • Facility generally diſguſts delicated nice Minds, but it produces a contrary effect, when a Lover regards it as a miracle of Love.1673, [Marie-Catherine de Villedieu], anonymous translator, “The Loves of Great Men. Cato of Vtica.”, in The Amours of Solon. Socrates. Julius Cæsar. Cato of Vtica. D’ Andelot. Bussy D’ Amboyse. […]...

Examples of delicated in a sentence

  • These delicated muslins rather seem / Than be, you think?1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, part II, stanza XX, page 125:
  • The way the single, circular petal was folded in the bud, like a rolled umbrella, shows in lines pressed finely into its delicated flesh, as thin as fine silk, but so much more perishable.1990 August 15, James Schuyler, edited by Nathan Kernan, The Diary of James Schuyler, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, published...

Forms of delicated

comparativemore delicated
superlativemost delicated

Origin of delicated

Apparently an alteration of delicate with -ed.

Questions about delicated

What does delicated mean?
Delicated means delicate.
How do you use delicated in a sentence?
These delicated muslins rather seem / Than be, you think?
What part of speech is delicated?
Delicated is an adjective.

Words near delicated in the dictionary

  1. delicacies
  2. delicacy
  3. delicata
  4. delicatas
  5. delicate
  6. delicated
  7. delicately
  8. delicateness
  9. delicater
  10. delicates
  11. delicatesse

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