dainty

dain·ty  (dnt)

adj. dain·ti·er, dain·ti·est

1. Delicately beautiful or charming; exquisite: "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year" Walt Whitman.

2. Delicious or choice. See Synonyms at delicate.

3. Of refined taste; discriminating.

4. Overly fastidious; squeamish.

n. pl. dain·ties

Something delicious; a delicacy.

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[Middle English deinte, excellent, excellence, from Old French deintie, from Latin dignits, from dignus, worthy; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

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dainti·ly adv.

dainti·ness n.

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dainty

Adjective

[-tier, -tiest]

delicate, pretty, or elegant: dainty little pink shoes

Noun

pl -ties

Brit a small choice cake or sweet [Old French deintié]

daintily adv

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	dainty - something considered choice to eat goody, kickshaw, treat, delicacy aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, victuals, nutrition - a source of materials to nourish the body choice morsel, tidbit, titbit - a small tasty bit of food savoury, savory - an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre confection, sweet - a food rich in sugar nectar, ambrosia - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal jelly, gelatin - an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods bone marrow, marrow - very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
Adj.	1.	dainty - affectedly dainty or refined mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
	2.	dainty - delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo" exquisite delicate - exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
	3.	dainty - especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"
	4.	dainty - 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" overnice, squeamish, prissy, nice fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

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dainty

adjective 1. delicate, pretty, charming, fine, elegant, neat, exquisite, graceful, petite << OPPOSITE clumsy

adjective 2. delectable, choice, delicious, tender, tasty, savoury, palatable, toothsome

adjective 3. particular, nice, refined, fussy, scrupulous, fastidious, choosy, picky (informal) finicky, finical

Translations

dainty [ˈdeɪntɪ] adj → delicado (= tasteful); elegante

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dainty [ˈdeɪntɪ] adj → délicat(e) → mignon(ne)

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dainty [ˈdeɪntɪ] adj → zierlich

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dainty [ˈdeɪntɪ] adj → delicato/a, grazioso/a