delicately
adverbHow many syllables in delicately?
There are 4 syllables in the word delicately.How to pronounce delicately:
Definition of delicately:
- delicately (adverb):
- pleasing to the senses
Synonyms for delicately:
carefully
daintily
deftly
elegantly
exquisitely
faintly
feebly
fine
finely
frailly
gently
gracefully
halfheartedly
languidly
lazily
lightly
listlessly
precisely
shakily
skilfully
softly
subtly
weakly
Antonyms for delicately:
adamantinely
durably
everlastingly
firmly
hardly
indestructibly
indissolubly
infrangibly
invulnerably
lastingly
perdurably
resiliently
resistantly
robustly
ruggedly
solidly
stoutly
strongly
sturdily
toughly
unbreakably
unshakably
unyieldingly
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- antepenult
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