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  1. The meaning of DAINTY is something delicious to the taste. How to use dainty in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Dainty.

  2. small, delicate, and often moving in a careful way: She was a small, dainty child, unlike her sister who was large and had big feet. The chicken salad was served in dainty pastry shells. Compare. twee mainly UK informal disapproving. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. not great in size, amount, etc. small I live in a small town.

  3. Dainty means tiny, delicate, and lovely, so you could describe a little china tea set as dainty, and you could also call the tiny cakes on the little plates dainty.

  4. Dainty definition: of delicate beauty; exquisite. See examples of DAINTY used in a sentence.

  5. 1. of delicate beauty; exquisite. a dainty lace handkerchief. 2. pleasing to the taste and, often, temptingly served or delicate; delicious. dainty pastries. 3. of delicate discrimination or taste; particular; fastidious. a dainty eater.

  6. 1. Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small: dainty slippers. 2. Delicious; tasty: a dainty dish. 3. Fastidious or finicky: "They chided [them] for being too dainty to eat army rations" (Stephen Berry). 4.

  7. Jun 2, 2024 · Adjective. dainty ( comparative daintier, superlative daintiest) Elegant; delicately small and pretty . Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating. ( obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine .

  8. Definition of dainty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  9. Overly or affectedly fastidious; squeamish. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Frail in constitution or health. American Heritage. More Adjective Definitions (1) Synonyms: squeamish. persnickety. mincing. ethereal. fastidious. delicacy. decorous.

  10. (Definition of dainty from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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