adj. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"

adj. of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"

adj. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"

adj. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"

adj. easily hurt; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin"

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"

adj. lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

adj. moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism"

adj. unhealthy looking

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adj. quick to take offense

adj. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"

adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

adj. fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"

adj. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition"

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

adj. hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"

adj. quick to take offense

adj. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"

adj. of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"

adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

adj. having decorative ruffles or frills

adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

adj. very narrow; "a thin line across the page"

adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

adj. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"

adj. slender and graceful

adj. too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"

adj. capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully"

adj. having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak link"

adj. sensitive to sexual stimulation

adj. capable of responding to stimuli

adj. readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated"

adj. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

adj. sensitive to visible light; "photographic film is light-sensitive"

adj. caused by or in response to pain; "a nociceptive spinal reflex"

adj. tending to react to a stimulus; "the skin of the geriatric is less reactive than that of younger persons"- Louis Tuft

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

adj. (used facetiously) refined

adj. affectedly dainty or refined

adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"

adj. befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"

adj. befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"

adj. excessively delicate or refined

adj. of good upbringing

adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

adj. expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"

adj. used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

adj. "a master plumber"; "a master thief"

adj. excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"

adj. (skilled)

adj. proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"

adj. competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer"

adj. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

adj. readily crumbled: "crumbly cookies"; "friable sandstone"

adj. capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"

adj. subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces

adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

adj. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

adj. having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"

adj. impressively difficult; "a tall order"

adj. extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"

adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"

adj. requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"

adj. very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"

adj. exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"

adj. full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"

adj. causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times"

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

adj. tall and thin

adj. long and lean

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

adj. resembling a reed in being upright and slender

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

adj. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. having a small waist

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

adj. having long slender legs

adj. lean and sinewy

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "a rugged trapper who spent months in the wilderness"; "those that survive are stalwart rugged men"; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"

adj. not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"

adj. physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"

adj. posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"

adj. having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"