delicacy

Plural: delicacies

Noun

• A choice or expensive food, or sensitivity.
• the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
• something considered choice to eat
• refined taste; tact
• smallness of stature
• lack of physical strength
• subtly skillful handling of a situation
• lightness in movement or manner
• The quality of being delicate.
• Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
• Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
• Frailty of health or fitness.
• Refinement in taste or discrimination.
• Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

Examples

• a Chinese delicacy
• Placing ’Q’ on a triple word score required DELICACY, given the tight board.

Synonyms

airiness, daintiness, dainty, diplomacy, discreetness, discretion, fineness, finesse, fragility, goody, kickshaw, slightness, treat

Related Words

delicate, delicatessen, delicious, delight