delicacy 的定义
plural del·i·ca·cies.
- fineness of texture, quality, etc.; softness; daintiness: the delicacy of lace.
- something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy.
- the quality of being easily broken or damaged; fragility.
- the quality of requiring or involving great care or tact: negotiations of great delicacy.
- extreme sensitivity; precision of action or operation; minute accuracy: the delicacy of a skillful surgeon's touch; a watch mechanism of unusual delicacy.
- fineness of perception or feeling; sensitiveness: the delicacy of the pianist's playing.
- fineness of feeling with regard to what is fitting, proper, etc.: Delicacy would not permit her to be rude.
- sensitivity with regard to the feelings of others: She criticized him with such delicacy that he was not offended.
- bodily weakness; liability to sickness; frailty.
- Linguistics. the degree of minuteness pursued at a given stage of analysis in specifying distinctions in linguistic description.
- Obsolete. sensuous indulgence; luxury.
delicacy 近义词
daintiness, fineness of structure
delicious, gourmet food
更多delicacy例句
- Not content to just mass-produce lab-grown fish fillets, it has focused on developing prized delicacies, especially fish maw.
- Enjoy the local delicacy with this summery cocktail that uses TINCUP’s bourbon, which is aged for 10 years.
- It was a delicacy from the gods in order to not go to sleep hungry, which is one of the worst sensations in life.
- She next took on four papers that had been rapidly published early in 2020, two of them in Nature, describing viruses in pangolins—endangered scale-covered mammals sometimes eaten as delicacies in China—that shared similarities to SARS-CoV-2.
- The latter work’s delicacy, typical of Yamaguchi’s style, is infused here with new urgency.
- At the time, the island had not yet been named after the delicacy, and went by the decidedly less fantastical Twickenham Ait.
- C, lastly, I just think [Perritaz] has a natural taste for purity, delicacy, and ethereal balance.
- His hilarious parody-fable, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,” traces the supposed genesis of that culinary delicacy.
- In their scenes, there is delicacy, there is love, and there is hope.
- St. Peter Damian damned her for “excessive delicacy” in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands.
- Flowers, fruits, and insects were her favorite subjects, and were painted with rare delicacy.
- I think that he had more virtuosity, and yet more delicacy of feeling, than either Rubinstein or Blow.
- The officer, with less delicacy of attention to the supposed slumbers of an invalid, followed him.
- Many of these pipes are sculptured from the most obdurate stones and display great delicacy of workmanship.
- He evidently avoided taking a share in the discussion of his Transatlantic career, probably from delicacy to his English auditor.