dainty
Meaning of dainty
adjective
- delicately small and pretty.
a dainty lace handkerchief
the china cup seemed too dainty in his large hands
- fastidious, especially concerning food.
a dainty appetite
- something good to eat; a delicacy.
home-made breads, jams, and dainties
Middle English (as noun): from Old French daintie, deintie ‘choice morsel, pleasure’, from Latin dignitas ‘worthiness or beauty’, from dignus ‘worthy’.
Information about dainty
- The plural form of dainty is: dainties.
- Languages in which dainty is used:
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Hyphenation of dainty
dainty
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- dainty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dainty synonyms
Meaning mincing:
Meaning exquisite:
Meaning nice:
nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
Meaning delicacy:
delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
Meaning very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail:
Meaning fastidious about one's needs or requirements; hard to please:
Meaning (of a person) fussy about their needs or requirements:
Meaning another term for finicky:
Meaning with impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing:
Meaning insisting that something should be correct or suitable in every detail; fastidious:
Meaning having or showing refined taste or good judgement:
Meaning having or showing good judgement:
Meaning expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements:
Meaning making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources:
Meaning (of a task) requiring much skill or effort:
Meaning (of a person or process) careful, thorough, and extremely attentive to details:
Meaning showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise:
Meaning making sure of avoiding potential danger, mishap, or harm; cautious:
Meaning (of a person) careful to avoid potential problems or dangers:
Meaning taking excessive care when making a choice:
Meaning fussy and hard to please:
Meaning having many arbitrary and often unusual likes and dislikes about food:
Meaning placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy:
Meaning a small piece of tasty food:
Meaning a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction:
Meaning a state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense:
Meaning an act or instance of nibbling:
Meaning a small dish of food or a drink taken before a meal or the main course of a meal to stimulate one's appetite:
Meaning an elaborate sweet dish or delicacy:
Meaning a piece of confectionery; a sweet:
Meaning an item of confectionery or sweet food:
dainty antonyms
Meaning not having or showing good judgement or taste:
Translation of dainty
- Italian: ghiottoneria, leccornia, squisitezza, prelibatezza, golosità, delizia
- German: Delikatesse, Leckerbissen, Köstlichkeit, Schmankerl, fein, zart, appetittlich
- French: délice, régal
- Portuguese: guloseima, iguaria
- Spanish: delicadeza, exquisitez
Words that rhyme with dainty
certainty, fainty, incertainty, noncertainty, overdainty, painty, prickmedainty, superdainty, suzerainty, uncertainty, undainty, shinty, clinty, flinty, glinty, linty, skinflinty, splinty, minty, pepperminty, jointy, pointy, stinty, tinty, squinty
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