Adjective: dainty (daintier,daintiest) deyn-tee
- Delicately beautiful
"a dainty teacup";
- exquisite
- Especially pleasing to the taste
"a dainty dish to set before a kind"
- Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
"too dainty about his food to take to camp cooking";
- nice [archaic], overnice, prissy, squeamish
- Something considered choice to eat
"The chef prepared a selection of dainties for the reception";
- delicacy, goody, kickshaw [archaic], treat
Derived forms: daintier, dainties, daintiest
See also: delicate, fastidious, tasty
Type of: aliment [archaic], nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals, vittles [archaic]
Encyclopedia: Dainty, Christopher