See delicate on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, in Medieval Latin also fine, slender”), from dēlicia, usually in plural dēliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”), from dēliciō (“I allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“I lure, I deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare delight, delicious and Spanish delgado (“thin, skinny”).",
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"word": "delicacy"
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"text": "Those clothes are made from delicate lace.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The negotiations were very delicate.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1850 April 18, Frederik W. Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute, page 5:",
"text": "There are some things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:",
"text": "The final vote between Hollande and Sarkozy now depends on a delicate balance of how France's total of rightwing and leftwing voters line up.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nežen",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "нежен"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "精緻"
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"word": "精致"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "choulostivý"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
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"word": "નાજુક"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "herkkä"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "tener"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "kōpīpī"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delikatny"
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
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"word": "хру́пкий"
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"word": "कोमल"
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"word": "fìnealta snasta"
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"roman": "peḷusu",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "పెళుసు"
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"word": "บอบบาง"
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"word": "ละเอียดอ่อน"
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"ref": "2021, “Silk in the Strings”, performed by Spiritbox:",
"text": "You crush a delicate moth wing\n I see the stain on your fingertips",
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},
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"text": "Her face was delicate.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The spider wove a delicate web.",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "There was a delicate pattern of frost on the window.",
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"code": "ca",
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"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "wanige",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "ᏩᏂᎨ"
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"roman": "delikátnyj",
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"word": "तनु"
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"word": "ละเอียด"
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"text": "Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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{
"text": "delicate behaviour",
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},
{
"text": "delicate attentions",
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{
"text": "delicate thoughtfulness",
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"sense": "refined, gentle",
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"word": "feinfühlig"
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"word": "taktvoll"
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"code": "grc",
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"word": "τρυφερός"
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "adín",
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"word": "עדין"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "marore"
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"code": "mn",
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"word": "нарийн"
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"_dis1": "2 2 1 50 2 1 2 4 20 4 5 3 2 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "delikatny"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 1 50 2 1 2 4 20 4 5 3 2 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "delicado"
}
]
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{
"text": "a delicate child",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "delicate health",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:",
"text": "a delicate and tender prince",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
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"Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious."
]
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"text": "a delicate taste",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "a delicate ear for music",
"type": "example"
}
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"Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite."
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"text": "a delicate thermometer",
"type": "example"
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]
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nežen",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "нежен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "delikaten",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "деликатен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delicat"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "精緻"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīngzhì",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "精致"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "choulostivý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "hauras"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "arkaluonteinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "délicat"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delicatif"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delicado"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "empfindlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "heikel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "schwierig"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hapalós",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "ἁπαλός"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "nājuk",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "નાજુક"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "adín",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עדין"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "shavír",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "שביר"
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "herkkä"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "tener"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "kōpīpī"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "kopī"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delikatny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delicado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delicat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xrúpkij",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "хру́пкий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "delikátnyj",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "делика́тный"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
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"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "कोमल"
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"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
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"word": "मृदु"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "delicado"
},
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "peḷusu",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "పెళుసు"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "บอบบาง"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "easily damaged or requiring careful handling",
"word": "ละเอียดอ่อน"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "delicat"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "wanige",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "ᏩᏂᎨ"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "jemný"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "hienorakenteinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "feingliedrig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "filigran"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "zart"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "zierlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "grazil"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "habrós",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "ἁβρός"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "adín",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "עדין"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "dēlicātus"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "whakatarapī"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nariin",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "нарийн"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "delikatny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "delikátnyj",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "делика́тный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izýskannyj",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "изы́сканный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izjáščnyj",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "изя́щный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "néžnyj",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "не́жный"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "tanu",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "तनु"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lá-ìiat",
"sense": "characterized by a fine structure or thin lines",
"word": "ละเอียด"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intended for use with fragile items",
"word": "jemný"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intended for use with fragile items",
"word": "hellävarainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intended for use with fragile items",
"word": "empfindlich"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nariin",
"sense": "intended for use with fragile items",
"word": "нарийн"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intended for use with fragile items",
"word": "delikatny"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztǎnčen",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "изтънчен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "hienotunteinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "hienovarainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "behutsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "feinfühlig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "taktvoll"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "trupherós",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "τρυφερός"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "adín",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"tags": [
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"word": "עדין"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "marore"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nariin",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "нарийн"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "delikatny"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "refined, gentle",
"word": "delicado"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "delicat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "choulostivý"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "anfällig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "schwächlich"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ápleros",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "άπλερος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "adín",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עדין"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "herkkä"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "leice"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "mōioio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "tūoi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "boléznennyj",
"sense": "of weak health, easily sick",
"word": "боле́зненный"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol",
"word": "rozklepaný"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol",
"word": "liikuttunut"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol",
"word": "angeschlagen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol",
"word": "wczorajszy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbítyj",
"sense": "unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol",
"word": "разби́тый"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "addicted to pleasure",
"word": "hienostunut"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "addicted to pleasure",
"word": "frohsinnig"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztǎnčen",
"sense": "pleasing to the senses; refined",
"word": "изтънчен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pleasing to the senses; refined",
"word": "hienostunut"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pleasing to the senses; refined",
"word": "herkullinen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pleasing to the senses; refined",
"word": "köstlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pleasing to the senses; refined",
"word": "erlesen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"word": "delikat"
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"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nariin",
"sense": "pleasing to the senses; refined",
"word": "нарийн"
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"code": "bg",
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"word": "нежен"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "delikaten",
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"word": "деликатен"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "slight and shapely; lovely; graceful",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "he",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "light, or softly tinted",
"word": "herkkä"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "light, or softly tinted",
"word": "leicht"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"word": "wählerisch"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "herkkä"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "highly discriminating or perceptive",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "affected by slight causes",
"word": "tarkka"
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