Dainty
['deɪntɪ] or ['denti]
Definition
(noun.) something considered choice to eat.
(adj.) delicately beautiful; 'a dainty teacup'; 'an exquisite cameo' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) affectedly dainty or refined .
(adj.) especially pleasing to the taste; 'a dainty dish to set before a kind'; .
Editor: Winthrop--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
(n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
(n.) A term of fondness.
(superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.
(superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
(superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
(superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Edited by Lelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Delicious, savory, nice, delicate, tender, palatable, luscious, toothsome.[2]. Elegant, beautiful, neat, fine.[3]. Fastidious, squeamish, scrupulous, over-nice.
n. Delicacy, tidbit, tit-bit, nice bit, choice morsel, delicate morsel.
Inputed by Leslie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Choice, rare, refined, tasty, exquisite, luxurious, epicurean
ANT:Common, coarse, unrelishing, nasty, dirty, omnivorous, greedy, gluttonous
Editor: Lou
Definition
adj. pleasant to the palate: delicate: fastidious: (Spens.) elegant.—n. that which is dainty a delicacy.—adj. Daint (Spens.).—adv. Dain′tily.—n. Dain′tiness.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Examples
- A dainty song, said Wamba, when they had finished their carol, and I swear by my bauble, a pretty moral! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Even if she couldn't love me, it was a great deal to me just to see her dainty form about the house, and to hear the sound of her voice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She was too tired, sometimes, even to smile, John grew dyspeptic after a course of dainty dishes and ungratefully demanded plain fare. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I never go into the kitchen but there is a saucepan on the fire, cooking him some dainty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our dainty fare was often exchanged for blows and imprisonment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She was born for all that is beautiful and dainty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I did not understand then that there lay any special significance in his reference to other dainties. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Servants brought in salvers covered with numerous cool dainties, and the performers disappeared to get ready for the second charade-tableau. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She also eats other dainties. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- These are furnished, as you will note from the illustration (Fig. 16), with suitable cooking pans for the preparation of chafing-dish dainties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Sallust