delicacy
noun
uk/ˈdel.ɪ.kə.si/us/ˈdel.ə.kə.si/delicacynoun(FOOD)
[C]
somethingespeciallyrareorexpensivethat is good toeat:
（尤指稀有昂贵的）美食，美味，佳肴In somepartsof theworld, sheep'seyesareconsideredagreatdelicacy.羊眼在世界某些地方被认为是一种难得的美味佳肴。
Food - general words
- aliment
- bed
- box scheme
- carb
- carbohydrate
- cep
- eats
- farm box
- fast food
- fayre
- food
- grub
- mouthful
- non-food
- nosh
- perishables
- portion
- produce box
- sustenance
- whole food
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Expensive & luxurious
delicacynoun(POLITENESS)
[U]
actingandspeakingcarefullyso that no one isoffended, or thepossibilityofcausingoffence:
（行动或说话）慎重，周到；微妙性Heraisedthematterwithgreatdelicacy.他十分慎重地提起这件事。
I don'tthinkyoufullyappreciatethe delicacyofthesituation.我认为你还没有充分认识到局势的微妙性。
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- finicky
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intractability
- multifarious
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-elaborate
- tortuous
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom
delicacynoun(BEING EASILY DAMAGED)
[U]
thequalityof beingeasytodamageorlookingveryeasytodamage:
易损；易碎；脆弱Because oftheirgreatdelicacy, thebookscannot bemoved.由于这些书极易受损，因此不宜搬动。
Fragile and breakable
- breakable
- brittle
- crumbly
- delicate
- dodgy
- fissile
- flaky
- flimsily
- flimsiness
- flimsy
- fragile
- fragility
- frail
- friable
- ramshackle
- rickety
- tenuous
- tenuously
delicacynoun(CARE)
[U]
thequalityof being donecarefullyorgently:
精细，精妙Weadmiredthe delicacy of herbrushstrokes.我们十分欣赏她毛笔书法的精妙。
Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- agreeableness
- agreeably
- all things to all peopleidiom
- attractive
- deliciously
- delight
- delightful
- delightfully
- distraction
- homely
- homey
- indulgent
- indulgently
- jovial
- sensual
- sensuous
- sensuously
- serendipitous
- sweeten