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- Dictionarydainty/ˈdeɪnti/
adjective
- 1. delicately small and pretty: "a dainty lace handkerchief"
- 2. fastidious, especially concerning food: "a dainty appetite" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. something good to eat; a delicacy: "home-made breads, jams, and dainties"
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The meaning of DAINTY is something delicious to the taste. How to use dainty in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Dainty.
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.
Dainty definition: of delicate beauty; exquisite. See examples of DAINTY used in a sentence.
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.
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.
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.
Definition of dainty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.