Delicate vs Sweet - What's the difference?
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Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
* F. W. Robertson
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Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
Intended for use with fragile items.
Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
* Shakespeare
(informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
(obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
* 1360–1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman) (C-text),
* circa'' 1660 , (John Evelyn) (author), , volume I of II (1901), entry for the 19th of August in 1641,
Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
* circa'' 1603 , (William Shakespeare), ''(Othello) , act II,
Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
(obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
(obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
Having a taste of sugar.
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
Not having a salty taste.
* 1821 , Robert Thomas, The modern practice of physic
Having a pleasant smell.
* Longfellow
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
Having a pleasant sound.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Having a pleasing disposition.
Having a helpful disposition.
(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
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(informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
(obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
* Milton
(uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
(countable, British) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
(countable, British) A food eaten for dessert.
sweetheart; darling
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which is pleasing or welcome to the mind.
In informal terms the difference between delicate and sweet
is that delicate is unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol while sweet is very pleasing; agreeable.In obsolete terms the difference between delicate and sweet
is that delicate is a delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person while sweet is that which is pleasing or welcome to the mind.As adjectives the difference between delicate and sweet
is that delicate is easily damaged or requiring careful handling while sweet is having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.As nouns the difference between delicate and sweet
is that delicate is a delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie while sweet is the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.As an adverb sweet is
in a sweet manner.As a proper noun Sweet is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
- The negotiations were very delicate .
- There are some things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth.
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- Her face was delicate .
- The spider wove a delicate web.
- There was a delicate pattern of frost on the window.
- Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.
- delicate''' behaviour; '''delicate''' attentions; '''delicate thoughtfulness
- a delicate''' child; '''delicate health
- a delicate and tender prince
- Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning.
passus IX, line 285:
- Þenk þat diues for hus delicat lyf to þe deuel wente.
page 29:
- Haerlem is a very delicate town and hath one of the fairest churches of the Gothic design I had ever seen.
- a delicate''' dish; '''delicate flavour
scene iii, lines 18 and 20–21:
- : She’s a most exquisite lady.…Indeed, she’s a most fresh and delicate creature.
- a delicate shade of blue
- a delicate''' taste; a '''delicate ear for music
- a delicate thermometer
Synonyms
* (easily damaged) fragileNoun
(en noun)- Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate !
- With abstinence all delicates he sees. — Dryden.
- All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, — those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than their neighbours, — are only of the Corinth metal. — Holland.
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English
(wikipedia sweet)Adjective
(er)- a sweet apple
- Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
- sweet butter
- Nothing has been found so effectual for preserving water sweet at sea, during long voyages, as charring the insides of the casks well before they are filled.
- a sweet scent
- The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
- sweet milk
- a sweet tune
- a voice sweet , tremulous, but powerful
- a sweet child
- It was sweet of him to help out.
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
- The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
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- The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.
- sweet water
- (Francis Bacon)
- a sweet''' face; a '''sweet colour or complexion
- Sweet interchange / Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
Synonyms
* (having a taste of sugar) saccharine, sugary * (containing a sweetening ingredient) sugared, sweetened * (not having a salty taste) fresh, unsalty * (having a pleasant smell) fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling * fresh, unfermented, wholesome * (having a pleasant sound) dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant * (having a pleasing disposition) cute, lovable, pleasant * (having a helpful disposition) kind, gracious, helpful, sensitive, thoughtful * rad, awesome, wickedAntonyms
* (having a pleasant taste) bitter, sour, salty * (containing a sweetening ingredient) nonsweet, sugarless, unsugared, unsweetened, unsweet * dry * decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, stale * (not having a salty taste) salty, savoury * (free from excessive unwanted substances) sour * lame, uncoolDerived terms
* bittersweet * boiled sweet * flower-sweet * honey-sweet * meadowsweet * semisweet * short and sweet * sickeningly sweet * sickly sweet/sickly-sweet * sugar-sweet * sweet action * (sweet alison) * (sweet almond) * (sweet alyssum) * sweet and sour * sweet as * sweet as a nut * sweet as pie * sweet ball * (sweet balm) * sweet basil * sweet bay * (sweet bells) * sweet birch * sweet bread * sweetbread * sweet-breasted * (sweetbriar) * (sweet calabash) * (sweet cassava) * sweet cheeks * sweet cherry * sweet chocolate * (sweet cicely) * sweet cider * (sweet clover) * (sweet coltsfoot) * sweet corn/sweet-corn/sweetcorn * sweet cream * sweet cup * sweet dreams * (sweet elder) * sweeten * sweetener * sweet FA * (sweet fern) * sweet flag * (vern, sweet four o'clock) * sweet gale * (sweet goldenrod) * sweet grass * sweet gum tree * sweet hereafter * sweet iron * sweetish * sweetkin * sweet leaf * sweet lemon * (sweet lime) * sweetly * (sweet marjoram) * sweet Mary * sweetmeat * (sweet melon) * sweetness * sweet nothings * sweet oil * sweet on * sweet orange * sweet pea * sweet pepper * sweet pickle * sweet potato * (sweet rocket) * sweet roll * sweetroot * sweets * sweet scabious * sweet science * (sweet shrub) * sweet sixteen * Sweet Sixteen * sweet-smelling * sweet-sop * (sweet sorghum) * sweet spot * (sweet sultan) * sweet-talk * sweet talker * sweet tooth * (sweet unicorn plant) * sweet vermouth * (sweet vetch) * (sweet violet) * sweet water * (sweet wattle) * sweet william/Sweet William * sweet woodruff * sweety * sweet young thing * unsweet * (winter sweet)Usage notes
* Also used as a positive response to good news or information: They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet !Synonyms
* (in a sweet manner) sweetlyNoun
- Can we see the sweet menu, please?
- Wherefore frowns my sweet ?
- a wilderness of sweets
- the sweets of domestic life