delicate vs thick

delicate

adj
  • Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite. 

  • Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol. 

  • Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste. 

  • Easily damaged or requiring careful handling. 

  • circa 1660, John Evelyn (author), William Bray (editor), The Diary of John Evelyn, volume I of II (1901), entry for the 19th of August in 1641, page 29 

  • Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour. 

  • Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious. 

  • Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings. 

  • Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes. 

  • Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship. 

  • Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines. 

  • Intended for use with fragile items. 

  • Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful. 

noun
  • A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie. 

  • A moth, Mythimna vitellina 

thick

adj
  • Friendly or intimate. 

  • Heavy in build; thickset. 

  • Densely crowded or packed. 

  • Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. 

  • Having a viscous consistency. 

  • Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated. 

  • Detailed and expansive; substantive. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips. 

  • Impenetrable to sight. 

  • Deep, intense, or profound. 

  • Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension. 

  • Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin. 

  • Abounding in number. 

noun
  • A stupid person; a fool. 

  • The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. 

  • A thicket. 

adv
  • Frequently or numerously. 

  • In a thick manner. 

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