Dainty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Delicately beautiful or charming; exquisite: "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year” ( Walt Whitman).
  • adj. Delicious or choice. See Synonyms at delicate.
  • adj. Of refined taste; discriminating.
  • adj. Overly fastidious; squeamish.
  • n. Something delicious; a delicacy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Esteem, honour.
  • n. A delicacy.
  • n. Fancy cookies, pastries, or squares served at a social event (usually plural).
  • adj. Excellent; valuable, fine.
  • adj. Delicately small and pretty.
  • adj. Fastidious and fussy when eating.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
  • n. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
  • n. A term of fondness.
  • adj. Rare; valuable; costly.
  • adj. Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
  • adj. Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
  • adj. Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Worth; value; excellence.
  • n. A matter of joy or gratification; special regard or pleasure.
  • n. Pl. dainties (dān′ tiz). Something delicate to the taste; something delicious; a delicacy.
  • n. Darling: a term of fondness.
  • n. Synonyms Tidbit, etc. See delicacy.
  • Valuable; costly.
  • Exhibiting or possessing delicate beauty, or exquisite taste or skill; elegant; beautiful; neat; trim.
  • Pleasing to the palate; toothsome; delicious: as, dainty food.
  • Of acute sensibility or nice discrimination; sensitive.
  • Especially Of nice discrimination as regards taste; nice or over-nice in selecting what is preferred in any class of things, as food, clothing, etc.; hence, squeamish: as, a dainty taste or palate; dainty people.
  • Nice as regards behavior, decorum, intercourse, etc.; fastidious; hence, affectedly fine; effeminate; weak.
  • = Syn, 2. Pretty. Savory, luscious, toothsome.5 and Nice, Fastidious, etc. See nice.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. especially pleasing to the taste
  • n. something considered choice to eat
  • adj. delicately beautiful
  • adj. affectedly dainty or refined
  • adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
  • Equivalent
    tasty    delicate    refined    fastidious   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    daintier    daintiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    delicacy    value    estimation    rare    valuable    costly    toothsome    nice    delicate    well-formed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Clementi   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    delicate    nice    neat    slender    soft    silken    gorgeous    pink    quaint