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DELICATE

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

DELICATE is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

DELICATES-s 11

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DELICE 3 DELICES 5 DELICATELY 11 DELICATENESS 11 DELICATENESSES 11
adjective
  1. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
    • Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
    • The negotiations were very delicate.
  2. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
    • Her face was delicate.
    • The spider wove a delicate web.
    • There was a delicate pattern of frost on the window.
  3. Intended for use with fragile items.
    • Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.
  4. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
    • delicate behaviour
    • delicate attentions
    • delicate thoughtfulness
  5. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
    • a delicate child
    • delicate health
  6. informalUnwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
    • Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning.
  7. obsoleteAddicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
  8. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
    • a delicate dish
    • delicate flavour
  9. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
  10. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
    • a delicate shade of blue
  11. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
  12. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
    • a delicate taste
    • a delicate ear for music
  13. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
    • a delicate thermometer
noun
  1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
    • Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate!
  2. obsoleteA choice dainty; a delicacy.
  3. obsoleteA delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
  4. A moth of the species Mythimna vitellina.