Dainty

Adjective

 * 1) Delicately small and pretty.
 * 2) Fastidious and fussy when eating.

Noun

 * 1) A delicacy.
 * 2) * 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * ...my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties.
 * 1)  Fancy cookies, pastries, or squares served at a social event (usually plural).

Adjectives for Dainty
carefully-prepared; prized; coveted; diet-robbing; sugared; tempting; toothsome.

Verbs for Dainty
allure by—; crave—; desire—; feed on—; pamper with—; prepare—; promise—; provide—; relish—; reward with—; share—; spice—; store—; surrender to—; —appeals; —delights; —pleases.

Adverbs for Dainty
fastidiously; exquisitely; subtly; extremely; gracefully; charmingly; girlishly; personally; faultlessly; fashionably; meticulously; primly; demurely; delicately; particularly; scrupulously;  pleasingly;   immaculately; sweetly; fragrantly.

Synonyms for Dainty
neat, petite, nice, delicate, particular, choice, sweet, fine, refined, pretty, fastidious, rare, exquisite, elegant, pure, soft, tender, pleasing.

Antonyms for Dainty
sour, litter, tasteless, unpleasant, disgusting, coarse, harsh, gross, repellent, inferior.

Thesaurus
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

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Bulgarian: нежен, изискан
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Russian: изящный
 * Welsh: amheuthun


 * Bulgarian: придирчив
 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: деликатес, лакомство