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delicately

Syllables: del·i·cate·ly/ˈdɛlɪkətli/

delicately adverb: in a delicate manner; exquisitely.

Adverb

delicately (comparative more delicately, superlative most delicately)

  1. In a delicate manner; exquisitely.
    • The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.
    • The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers.1978, Oliver E. Allen, Pruning and Grafting, page 93
  2. Tactfully.
    • He approached the main subject delicately.

delicately meaning in Marathi, Kannada and Gujarati

delicately in Marathi

नाजूकपणे

delicately in Kannada

ನಾಜೂಕಾಗಿ

delicately in Gujarati

નાજુક રીતે

Examples of delicately in a sentence

  • Each illustration was protected by a glassine page that had to be turned delicately.
  • Planks of crispy, "chilly" potatoes and elegant, delicately flavored shrimp Sunnaina in white-wine garlic-tomato concassé are hits.
  • Instead, delicately cut out shapes had been sewn onto an undercloth, with fine embroidery worked over them.

All 32 example sentences with delicately

Forms of delicately

comparativemore delicately
superlativemost delicately

Origin of delicately

From delicate + -ly.

Questions about delicately

What does delicately mean?
Delicately means in a delicate manner; exquisitely.
What is delicately in Marathi?
Delicately in Marathi is नाजूकपणे. See Delicately meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is delicately?
Delicately is an adverb.
How do you pronounce delicately?
Delicately is pronounced /ˈdɛlɪkətli/.

Words near delicately in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delicately (page history and authors); delicately (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); delicately (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); delicately (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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