dainty in English dictionary

  • dainty

    Meanings and definitions of "dainty"

    • Delicately small and pretty.
    • Fastidious and fussy when eating.
    • A delicacy.
    • (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) Fancy cookies, pastries, or squares served at a social event (usually plural).
    • adjective
      (obsolete)
      Excellent; valuable, fine.
    • adjective
      Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
    • adjective
      Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Esteem, honour.
    • noun
      A delicacy.
    • noun
      (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario)
      A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      An affectionate term of address.
    • Delicately small and pretty
    • Fastidious and fussy when eating
    • An especially delicious comestible.
    • adjective
      delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
    • adjective
      especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"
    • adjective
      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"
    • noun
      something considered choice to eat

    Synonyms of "dainty" in English dictionary

    victuals, mincing, nutriment are the top synonyms of "dainty" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of dainty

    • dainty ( comparative daintier, superlative daintiest)
    • st. wyższy  stopień wyższy daintier; st. najwyższy  stopień najwyższy daintiest lp  liczba pojedyncza dainty; lm  liczba mnoga dainties
    • dainty ( plural  dainties)
    • dainty (comparative daintier, superlative daintiest)
    • dainty (plural dainties)

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