DELICATE

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Traducere în limba română

delicate I. adjectiv

1. plăcut la gust.

2. delicat, răsfăţat, crescut în puf.

3. delicat, cu ţesutul fin / moale / subţire.

4. (lucrat) fin, delicat, minuţios, migălos.

5. (despre culoare) atenuat, fraged, palid, de nuanţă pastel.

6. subtil, rafinat.

7. delicat, plăpind, gingaş; fragil.

8. (despre situaţie) critic, delicat.

9. (despre persoane, instrumente) foarte simţitor / sensibil.

10. (despre atingere) uşor, delicat, care nu apasă.

11. (despre auz) fin, ascuţit.

12. scrupulos.

13. atent, delicat.

14. pudic, ruşinos.

15. cusurgiu, pretenţios.

delicate II. substantiv (înv.)

1. cusurgiu, persoană mofturoasă.

2. fiinţă plăpândă.

3. plural delicatese.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Too delicate and difficult a subject for such interference,” I replied.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The lips were red, nay redder than before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“It is a very delicate question,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was, as Dr. Watson told us, a form of knife which is used for the most delicate operations known in surgery.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Good fires and carriages would be much more to the purpose in most cases of delicate health, and I dare say in her's.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Anne is too delicate for them.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

A morphologic finding that refers to delicate vascular channel formations.

(Chicken-Wire Vasculature, NCI Thesaurus)

He ought now to have been at school; but his mama had taken him home for a month or two, "on account of his delicate health."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

As she looked very pretty, and too delicate for a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

“It would have been very shocking to have it torn,” said she, “would not it? It is such a delicate muslin. For my part I have not seen anything I like so well in the whole room, I assure you.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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