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Antonyms for delicacies
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : del-i-kuh-see |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛl ɪ kə si |
Definition of delicacies
Origin :- "things dainty and gratifying to the palate," mid-15c., from plural of delicacy.
- noun daintiness, fineness of structure
- noun delicious, gourmet food
- The roll of delicacies is long enough, or even too long without them.
- Extract from : « The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: » by Mrs. W. G. Waters
- And the Jews, when they left Egypt, looked back with fondness to these delicacies.
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- Neither would you approve of the delicacies, as they are thought, of Athenian confectionary?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- He handed her the basket, and she brought out the delicacies.
- Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
- He wrote to Paris and London for all the delicacies of the "comestible" shops.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- Naples excels in these delicacies, and the abbe had everything of the best.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- This was not a time for delicacies of sentiment He wished to save Annette.
- Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
- There's no poison in them, but lots of goose-livers and other delicacies.
- Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
- You say that you can afford to indulge yourself in the delicacies to which I have alluded.
- Extract from : « Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford » by Edward Berens
- Where the Colonel obtained all these delicacies I can not imagine.
- Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
Synonyms for delicacies
- airiness
- ambrosia
- banquet
- bonne bouche
- dainty
- debility
- delight
- dessert
- diaphaneity
- elegance
- etherealness
- exquisiteness
- feast
- fragility
- frailness
- frailty
- goody
- gossameriness
- indulgence
- infirmity
- lightness
- luxury
- morsel
- nectar
- pleasure
- rarity
- regale
- relish
- savory
- slenderness
- smoothness
- softness
- special
- subtlety
- sweet
- tenderness
- tenuity
- tidbit
- translucency
- transparency
- treat
- weakness
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