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delicately

/ˈdɛlɪkətli/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈdɛlɪkətli/
delicately
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

de - li - ca - te - ly -> delicately

Myanmar meaning

(adv) နုနုနယ်နယ်။

Full entry

delicate /'delÇkǝt/ adj

၁။ (က) နူးညံ့သော။ သိမ်မွေ့သော။ အနုစိတ်သော။
a delicate mechanism/structure ❍ the delicate beauty of a snowflake.
(ခ) နူးညံ့ပါးလွှာသော။ ချောမွေ့သော။ နုနယ်သော။
as delicate as silk ❍ a baby's delicate skin.
၂။ (က) နုသော။ ကွဲလွယ်သော။ သိမ်မွေ့သော။ delicate china ❍ delicate pink flowers ❍ upset the delicate ecological balance of the rain forest.
(ခ) ချူချာ သော။ ချည့်နဲ့သော။ a delicate child/constitution.
၃။ (က) အနုစိတ်သော။ နုနုရွရွရှိသော။ လက်ဝင်သော။
the delicate craftsmanship of a fine watch ❍ a delicate surgical operation.
(ခ) လိမ္မာပါးနပ်သော။ ပရိယာယ်ကြွယ်သော။ ပညာသားပါသော။ သိမ်မွေ့သော။
I admired your delicate handling of the situation. ❍ We're conducting some very delicate negotiations.
၄။ (အာရုံငါးပါး (သို့) စက် ကိရိယာ) အလွန်အသေးစိတ် အနုစိတ်သိသော၊ ဖော်ပြနိုင်သော။
a delicate sense of smell/touch ❍ Only a very delicate thermometer can measure such tiny changes in temperature.
၅။ (က) (အရောင်) နုသော။ ဖျော့သော။ a delicate shade of pink. (ခ) (အစားအစာ၊ အရသာ)နှစ်သက်ဖွယ် ကောင်းသော၊ ချိုမြိန်သော။ မပြင်းသော။ a delicate flavour of salmon.
(ဂ) (အနံ့) သင်းပျံ့သော။ သင်းသော။
a delicate aroma. delicately adv : a delicately phrased compliment.

More examples
  • Delicate skin must be protected from the sun.
  • The plant has delicate pink flowers.
  • Her delicate hands
  • A delicate floral design
  • There is a rather delicate matter that I need to discuss with you.
  • The negotiations are at a very delicate stage.
  • A very delicate operation
  • A delicate balance between freedom and restraint
  • He plays the piano with a delicate touch.
Synonyms
fragile, frail, weak, slight, flimsy, insubstantial, accurate, adept, aerial, ailing, alert, attractive, awkward, balmy, breakable, careful, cautious, choice, complicated, considerate, critical, dainty, debilitated, decrepit, deft, delectable, delicious, delightful, detailed, difficult, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating, elegant, elusive, ethereal, expert, exquisite, faint, fastidious, feeble, filmy, fine, fine-grained, finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, foresighted, fracturable, frangible, fussy, gauzy, gentle, gossamery, graceful, hair-trigger, hairline, heedful, infirm, masterly, mild, minute, muted, nice, pale, particular, pastel, persnickety, politic, precarious, precise, proficient, prudent, prudish, pure, rare, recherché, refined, scrupulous, select, sensitive, shatterable, shattery, sickly, skilled, slender, soft, squeamish, sticky, sticky (situation), subdued, subtle, superior, susceptible, sympathetic, tactful, tactical, tantalizing, tender, thin-skinned, thoughtful, ticklish, touchy, tricky, uncertain, uncomfortable, unhealthy, unpredictable, volatile, wary
Antonyms
callous, calm, coarse, crude, easy, firm, hard, harsh, healthful, healthy, heavy, horrible, imprecise, indelicate, indiscriminating, inelegant, insensitive, loud, ordinary, overpowering, robust, rough, stable, straightforward, strong, tactless, tough, ugly, uncareful, uncritical, unpleasant, unscrupulous, violent
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fragilefrailweakslightflimsyinsubstantialaccurateadeptaerialailingalertattractiveawkwardbalmybreakablecarefulcautiouschoicecomplicatedconsideratecriticaldaintydebilitateddecrepitdeftdelectabledeliciousdelightful
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