Dictionary Definition
dainty adj
2 of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty
teacup"; "an exquisite cameo" [syn: exquisite]
3 especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty
dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel" [syn: tasty]
4 excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;
"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he
would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" [syn: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish] n : something
considered choice to eat [syn: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat] [also: daintiest, daintier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪnti
Adjective
- Delicately small and pretty.
- Fastidious and fussy when eating.
Translations
Fastidious and fussy when eating
- Finnish: nirso, valikoiva
- Russian: привередливый
Noun
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acute,
agreeable, airy, ambrosia, ambrosial, appetizing, attenuate, attenuated, beautiful, bleached, bonne bouche,
bonny, breakable, bright, brittle, cate, cheap-jack, choice, choice morsel, civilized, clean, cleanly, cobwebby, comestible, comfit, crumbly, cultivated, cultured, cunning, cute, delectable, delicacy, delicat, delicate, delicately weak,
delicious, delightful, dessert, diaphanous, dirt-free,
discriminating,
downy, easy, eatable, edible, effeminate, elegant, esculent, ethereal, exquisite, fair, fastidious, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained,
finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frail, frangible, fresh, fussy, fuzzy, gauzy, genteel, gentle, gimcrack, gimcracky, good, good to eat, good-tasting,
goody, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, gracious, gustable, gusty, immaculate, jerry, jerry-built, juicy, kickshaw, kosher, light, lightweight, likable, lovely, luscious, lush, manna, mignon, mincing, morsel, namby-pamby, neat, nectar, nectareous, nectarous, nice, nonpolluted, of cleanly
habits, of gourmet quality, overrefined, palatable, papery, particular, pasteboardy, perceptive, pernickety, persnickety, pleasing, polished, pretty, pubescent, puny, pure, rare, rarefied, recherche, refined, ritually pure, sapid, satin, satiny, savorous, savory, scrumptious, select, sensitive, shattery, shiny, silky, sissified, sleazy, slight, smooth, smut-free, smutless, soft, sophisticated, spotless, squeamish, stainless, subtile, subtle, succulent, superior, sweet, sweetmeat, tacky, tahar, tasty, tender, tenuous, thin, thin-spun, tidbit, titbit, toothsome, treat, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsubstantial, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, velutinous, velvety, well-scrubbed,
well-washed, white,
whitened, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish, yummy