delicately meaning

Definition of delicately

1. in a delicate manner
   • finely shaped features
   • her fine drawn body

   Synonyms: finely, fine, exquisitely

   Related forms: delicate

delicately in a sentence

• She lobbed the ball delicately over the defense.
• Ziri questioned Rima and tried to delicately find out the truth.
• This issue is quite painful for Tom, so try to bring it up to him delicately.

How to pronounce delicately

delicately is pronounced /ˈdɛləkətli/ in American English. It has 4 syllables, with the stress on the first syllable.