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delicacy

/del-i-kuh-see/US // ˈdɛl ɪ kə si //UK // (ˈdɛlɪkəsɪ) //

美味佳肴,美味,珍馐,美味的东西

Related Words

tenderness柔情,温情,温柔,温和subtlety细致,精妙的,精妙,细致的lightness轻盈,轻度,轻巧,亮度elegance高雅,高雅的风格,高贵典雅,高贵fragility脆弱性,脆弱,脆弱程度,脆弱度dessert甜品,甜食,甜点,甜蜜的feast盛宴,宴席,大餐,宴会luxury奢华,奢侈品,豪华,奢侈debility体弱多病,体弱,衰弱,体弱症frailness体弱,体弱多病,虚弱,脆弱weakness弱点,虚弱,弱势,虚弱性translucency半透明性,透光性,透光率,透亮度infirmity体弱多病,体弱,虚弱的身体,虚弱transparency透明度,透明性,透明度问题,透明度方面frailty体弱,虚弱,体弱多病,体质softness软度,柔软度,柔和度,软性smoothness平滑性,平稳性,光滑度,平滑度airiness气度,气质,气势,气量exquisiteness精美,精美度,精美绝伦,精美的slenderness苗条程度,苗条性,纤细,苗条度

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundaintiness, fineness of structure
Forms: delicacies
Synonyms
elegance高雅,高雅的风格,高贵典雅,高贵fragility脆弱性,脆弱,脆弱程度,脆弱度lightness轻盈,轻度,轻巧,亮度subtlety细致,精妙的,精妙,细致的tenderness柔情,温情,温柔,温和airiness气度,气质,气势,气量debility体弱多病,体弱,衰弱,体弱症exquisiteness精美,精美度,精美绝伦,精美的frailness体弱,体弱多病,虚弱,脆弱frailty体弱,虚弱,体弱多病,体质infirmity体弱多病,体弱,虚弱的身体,虚弱slenderness苗条程度,苗条性,纤细,苗条度smoothness平滑性,平稳性,光滑度,平滑度softness软度,柔软度,柔和度,软性tenuity寿命,永续性,寿命长短,腾博会官网诚信为本translucency半透明性,透光性,透光率,透亮度transparency透明度,透明性,透明度问题,透明度方面weakness弱点,虚弱,弱势,虚弱性diaphaneity二元化,二元性,二元论,二元期权etherealness空灵性,虚无缥缈,空灵,空灵之气gossameriness纱质感,纱质,纱布,纱布性
noundelicious, gourmet food
Forms: delicacies
Synonyms
dessert甜品,甜食,甜点,甜蜜的feast盛宴,宴席,大餐,宴会luxury奢华,奢侈品,豪华,奢侈ambrosia芳草萋萋,芳草,芳心,芳草集banquet宴席,酒席,宴请,宴会dainty娇小的,娇小玲珑,娇小,娇贵delight愉悦,喜悦,愉快,快乐goody好东西,好事,好的,美好的indulgence放纵,放任自流,纵容,放任morsel小菜一碟,小食,小吃,小菜nectar花蜜,花露水,花蜜糖,甘露pleasure乐趣,快感,快乐,愉悦rarity稀有性,稀缺性,罕见,稀有relish津津乐道,津津有味,津津乐道的savory美味的,美味,美味可口,美味的食物special特殊,特别,特殊的,特别的sweet甜的,甜甜的,甜蜜的,甜美的tidbit趣闻,趣闻轶事,趣闻趣事,趣闻杂谈treat治疗bonne bouche祝福你,好消息,祝福,鲜花regale摄取,摄政,摄,摄制

Examples

  • 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.

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