Dainty

Definitions: Dainty

Dainty

Adjective

1. Affectedly dainty or refined.

2. Of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo".

3. Especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel".

4. 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

1. Something considered choice to eat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dainty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Dainty

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Fastidiousness

Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.

Food

Comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living.

Pain

Treat; regale; (physical pleasure); dainty; titbit, tidbit; nuts, sauce piquante.

Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual.

Physical Pleasure

Treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice; dainty; bonne bouche.

Savoriness

Tidbit, titbit, dainty, delicacy, tasty morsel; appetizer, hors d'ouvres; ambrosia, nectar, bonne-bouche; game, turtle, venison; delicatessen.

Adjective: savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good, palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful, appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial, scrumptious, delightful.

Taste

Adjective: in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic.

Crosswords: Dainty

Let us not be dainty of our leave-taking. (Macbeth; writing credit: Roman Polanski; William Shakespeare)

A Dainty Politician (1910)

Esq. Bill Dainty (1975)

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Books

• How Can I, Dainty Dinosaur? (Modern Curriculum Press Beginning to Read Series) (reference)

• It Will Be Fun, Dainty Dinosaur (Modern Curriculum Press Beginning to Read Series) (reference)

• Two Homes for Dainty Dinosaur (Modern Curriculum Press Beginning to Read Series) (reference)

• Up and Down, Dainty Dinosaur (Modern Curriculum Press Beginning to Read Series) (reference)

• What Is It, Dainty Dinosaur? (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They were flaunting, glossy, moire, gorgeous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not prevent them from having a sword at their side.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Dainty

Expressions using "dainty": dainty food ♦ dainty maiden ♦ dainty morsel ♦ To make dainty. Additional references.

Beginning with "dainty": dainty-footed.

Ending with "dainty": too-dainty.

Afrikaan

teer (delicate, fine, refined), delikaat (delicate, fine, refined). (various references)

Albanian

me shije të hollë, i rafinuar (fastidious, formal, polished, refined), i hollë (delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy), i hijshëm (becoming, charming, comely, cool, decent, decorous, delicate, delicious, distinguished, elegant, graceful, jimp, nice, personable), gjellë e zgjedhur (nicety), elegant (chic, courtly, dashing, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, high-toned, modish, nifty, Nobby, silk stocking, Spruce, stylish, trig, willowy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نيق (fidgety, finical, finicky, fussy, precise, prissy, sticky), ‏لذيذ (delectable, delicious, delightful, flavorful, flavourful, good, nice, palatable, pleasant, sapid, savory, sweet, sympathetic, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, unique, yummy), ‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, comely, cunning, dapper, encore, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, pretty), ‏سهل المكسر (frail), ‏طيب المذاق (good taste, luscious, tasteful, yummy), ‏طعام لذيذ, ‏صعب الإرضاء (choosey, crabbed, difficult, fidgety, finical), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фин (delicate, distinguished, exquisite, fine, nice, recherche, refined, sheer), вкусен (goluptious, nutty, palatable, sapid, savoury, succulent, sweet, tasty, yummy), нежен (affectionate, delicate, dovelike, downy, fatherly, fond, fragile, frail, loving, maidenly, melodious, melting, slender, soft, sweet, tender, womanly), лакомство (delicacy, kickshaw), придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, delicate, exacting, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, nice, particular, pernickety, queasy, squeamish), изтънчен (cool, delicate, discriminating, fastidious, fine, polished, polite, refined, subtle, urbane), деликатес (delicacy, kickshaw). (various references)

Chinese 

高雅 (elegance, elegant), 纖巧 (delicate), 美味 (Dainties, flavorful, flavourful, Palatable, relish, savory, savoury, yummy). (various references)

Czech

vybraný (choice, delicate, elegant, exquisite, grand, parliamentary, refined, select, selected, sophisticated), pochoutka (delicacy, relish), pamlsek (delicacy, Goody, tidbit, titbit), pùvabný (appealing, attractive, charming, comely, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lightsome, lovely, pleasing, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome), mls, lahodný (appetizing, delicious, delightful, gentle, luscious, nutty, Savory, suave, sweet, yummy), lahùdka (delicacy, tidbit, titbit), jemný (bland, delicate, fine, gentle, graceful, gracious, light, milky, nice, silken, silky, soft, suave, subtle, superfine, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, wispy), chutný (appetizing, delicious, drinkable, good, palatable, sapid, Savory, scrumptious, tasteful, tasty, toothsome). (various references)

Danish

colchicum autumnale L (colchicum autumnale L, dainty maiden, meadow saffron). (various references)

Dutch

delicaat (delicate, fine, refined), vriendelýk (affable, brave, friendly, gallant, good-natured, kind, nice, pretty), teer (delicate, fine, refined, tar), teder (delicate, fine, refined), tactvol (delicate, fine, refined), lief (affable, beloved, dear, expensive, friendly, good-natured, kind, lovable, loved one, lovely, lover, nice, pretty, sweetheart, valuable, well-beloved), kieskeurig (delicate, fine, refined), kies (delicate, fine, molar, refined), iel (airy, delicate, fine, loose, refined, sandy), gevoelig (accessible, delicate, fine, impressible, refined, sensitive), fýn (delicate, fine, nice, orthodox, refined, subtle, tasty), beminnelýk (kind, lovable, nice, pretty), aardig (affable, amusing, entertaining, fair, fairly, friendly, funny, good-natured, kind, nice, pretty, rather, relatively, tidy). (various references)

Esperanto

delikata (delicate, fine, refined), amabla (kind, nice, pretty). (various references)

Farsi 

مطبوع (Douce, Exquisite, Fun, Graceful, Handsome, Lief, Proper, Scrumptious, Sweet, Toothsome), هرچیزظریف وعالی , گوشت یاخوراک لذیذ. (various references)

Finnish

soma (cute, neat, nice, pretty, sweet), herkku (delicacy, tidbit, titbit). (various references)

French

tendre, délicat. (various references)

German

zierlich (daintily, delicate, fine, graceful, minion, petite, slight, spindly), lecker (appetizing, daintily, delectable, delicate, delicately, delicious, leakier, lovely, luscious, mouth-watering, nice, palatable, Savory, savoury, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy), delikat (delicate, delicious, exquisite, fine, gentle, nice, refined, risque, sensitive, subtly, tasty). (various references)

Greek 

κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), νόστιμοσ (comely, nice, palatable, pretty, racy, relishable, savorous, savoury, toothsome, zest), ντελικάτοσ (delicate), εκλεκτικόσ (choosey, eclectic, elective, selective), λιχουδιά (delicacy, morsel), λεπτόσ (delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, refined, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish), λεπτοκαμωμένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

משמן (fat object, fatness), מע�"ן (delicacy, delight, luxury, tidbit), מטעם (delicacy, delicatessen, relish), ע�"ין (as yet, delicate, elegant, fine, gentle, gracious, mild, noble, not yet, slender, soft, still, subtle, tender, yet), חמו�" (cute, delightful, lovable, lovely, pretty, sweet), רך (flaccid, gentle, limping, mellow, soft, tender), � חמ�" (adorable, charming, cute, delightful, desirable, lovely, mellow, nice, pleasant, pretty). (various references)

Hungarian

kecses (agile, becoming, fluent, graceful, picked, precious, slim), csemege (delicacy, dessert, sweet, sweet morsel, tidbit, titbit), finom (cheesy, choice, classy, crackerjack, delicate, delicious, discerning, elegant, filigree, fine, genteel, ladylike, light, mellow, nice, pure, refined, screening, sedate, silky, snappy, subtle, tasty, tenuous). (various references)

Indonesian

penganan, pandai bersolek, cantik (beautiful, comely, lief, lovely, pretty). (various references)

Italian

delicato (delicate, fine, gentle, maidenly, refined, sensitive, slight, soft, sore, subtile, subtle, tender, thin, ticklish, touchy, tricky). (various references)

Manx

naightee (appetiser, titbit), dendeaysagh (delicate, effeminate, effeminate man, fastidious, prim, small eater), dendeays (delicacy, delicateness), bee naightee (tuck). (various references)

Norwegian

delikat (delicate), lekker (luscious). (various references)

Papiamen

delikadu (delicate, fine, refined), delikado (delicate, fine, refined), amabel (kind, nice, pretty). (various references)

Pig Latin

aintyday.(various references)

Portuguese

saboroso (delicious, flavoring, flavouring, luscious, nice, palatable, palatal, sapid, Savory, savoury, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy), guloseima (Cates, delicacy, luxury, sweet, tidbit, titbit), delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, delicate, exquisite, fasting, fine, Flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingery, kid glove, Kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out and out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made). (various references)

Romanian

dulciuri (confection, confectionery, sweets), delicat (captious, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), delicateţe (daintiness, delicacy, fineness, gentleness, nicety, refinement, softness, tactfulness, tenderness, thinness), delicios (charming, darling, delicate, delicious, luscious, palatable, Savory, savoury), dificil (abstract, awkward, captious, choosy, cross-grained, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, involved, nice, parlous, qualmish, scabrous, spiny, stiff, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding), drãgãlaş (comely, gentle, lovely, sweet), drãguţ (attractive, beloved, charming, comely, cute, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, sweet, sweetheart), ales (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme), gingaş (delicate, delicately, fastidious, fine, fragile, frail, gentle, mellow, nice, pernickety, sightly, squeamish, sweet, tender), rafinat (clever, courtly, delicate, exquisite, fine, parliamentary, refined, sophisticated, subtle, tenuous), gustos (appetizing, fruity, palatable, peckish, relishing, sapid, Savory, savoury, tasty, toothsome), luxos (high, largely, luxurious, luxuriously, magnificent, pompous, purple, rich), mâncare aleasã (delicacy, titbit), mofturos (demure, fastidious, finical, finicking, fractious, Froward, humoursome, naughty, nice, particular, peevish, perverse, picky, qualmish, squeamish), nãzuros (fastidious, humoursome, picky, prim, self willed), plin de graţie, elegant (daintily, Dandy, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, graceful, gracefully, jaunty, polite, smart, smartly, smug, spicy, stylish, swell, tasty, well-dressed). (various references)

Russian 

лакомство (delicacies, delicacy, kickshaw, knick knack), изящный (airy, delicate, dinky, distingue, dressy, elegant, fine, jimp, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, polite, refined, slim, slinky), изысканный (accomplished, courtly, distingue, exquisite, nice, precious, recherche, refined, soigne, tony 1, urbane, well spoken), деликатес (delicacy, regale). (various references)

Scottish

biolar. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

delikatan (delicate, ticklish), slatkiš (confection, dessert, goody, sweet, sweetmeat), poslastica (confection, delicacy, sweet, titbit), osetljiv (fast, pettish, queasy, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, sentient, susceptible, tetchy, thin-skinned), nežan (affectionate, delicate, endearing, fond, frail, gentle, kind, loving, melting, tender). (various references)

Spanish

fino (choice, delicate, discriminating, fine, gaunt, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, plain, plained, polished, refined, seed-free, semiprecious, sharp, sheer, shrewd, slender, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle, thin), amable (affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, charming, comradely, darling, decent, friendly, gentile, gentle, good, good-natured, helpful, kind, levely, likeable, lovable, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, pleasant, pretty, sympathetic, thankful). (various references)

Swedish

utsökt (choice, consummate, delicate, delicious, excellent, exquisite, exquisitely, fine, picked), läcker (delicate, delicious, far out, goluptious, juicy, luscious, nice, tasty, toothsome, yummy), fin (aristocratic, bully, choice, clean, delicate, delicious, dignified, discriminating, elegant, excellent, fine, finespun, first rate, gentee, genteel, grand, handsome, high pitched, keen, ladylike, nice, polished, refined, select, sensitive, slender, smart, soft, superior, swell, tactful, tender, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Turkish

düzenli (clean-cut, coordinate, equal, even, harmonious, in good trim, in order, methodical, neat, ordered, orderly, organized, regular, right, settled, snug, stated, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy), zarif (canny, classy, clever, courtly, Dandy, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, natty, neat, pretty, pulchritudinous, recherche, sharp, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), zarafet (daintiness, elegance, fineness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, pulchritude, spruceness, stylishness), titiz (careful, choosy, cleanly, critical, demanding, difficult, exact, exacting, exigent, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, jealous, jealous of, meticulous, niggling, niminy-piminy, particular, peevish, pernickety, picky, rigorous, scrupulous, squeamish, touchy), nefis (ambrosial, awfully nice, beautiful, beyond praise, delectable, delicious, delightly, excellent, exquisite, fine, marvellous, marvelous, peachy, scrumptious, stunning, yummy, yum-yum), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), mükemmel şey (groove, ideal, prime, snorter), lezzetli (delicate, delicious, goluptious, luscious, palatable, sapid, Savory, savoury, succulent, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy, zestful), leziz şey, ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous). (various references)

Ukranian 

смачний (appetizing, gusty, nice, nutty, palatable, sapid, savoury, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, yummy, yum-yum), витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, curious, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), вишуканий (accomplished, ambitious, becoming, chic, choice, courtly, delicate, distinguished, dressmaker, exquisite, fine, foppish, kid glove, minion, nice, nutty, polished, polite, precious, quaint, recherche, trim, way up), ласощі (confection, kickshaw, nicety), ласий (lickerish), делікатеси (cookery). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thích hoa mỹ kén ăn, ngon (dodge, full-bodied, rich, succulent, toothsome), khảnh ăn, ăn uống khó tính. (various references)

Welsh

danteithiol (delicious), danteithfwyd, amheuthun (choice, delicacy, rare, rarity, savory, treat). (various references)

delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus, fastidiosus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Dainty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ainsty, dainity, Daintith, daintly, dainy, dairnt, dairty, Danehy, danity, danty, Dauney, daunti, dauty, deint, denty, diaty, dinti, dinty, Dipinti, doint, donty, tainty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: adit, anti, ayin, dint, dita, tain, tidy, tiny, tyin.

-3 letters: aid, ain, ait, and, ani, ant, any, day, din, dit, nay, nit, tad, tan, tin, yid, yin.

-4 letters: ad, ai, an, at, ay, id, in, it, na, ta, ti, ya.

+1 letter: dittany.

+2 letters: antibody, banditry, daintily, dynamist, dynamite, dynastic, dystonia, intraday, nodality, toadying.

+3 letters: anhydrite, arytenoid, asyndetic, defiantly, dignitary, dilatancy, distantly, dynamists, dynamited, dynamiter, dynamites, dynamitic, dynasties, dystonias, dystopian, hydrating, hydration, mendacity, mundanity, radiantly, rancidity, steadying, syndicate.

+4 letters: accidently, admonitory, anhydrites, animatedly, arytenoids, dauntingly, dictionary, divinatory, dominantly, dynamistic, dynamiters, dynamiting, hydrations, indicatory, inundatory, invalidity, myelinated, ponytailed, syndicated, syndicates, syndicator, tyrannised, tyrannized, unsteadily.

+5 letters: antidotally, antisubsidy, antithyroid, antityphoid, cardinality, daylighting, dehydrating, dehydration, deniability, denigratory, designatory, determinacy, diaphaneity, dictionally, disquantity, dissonantly, doctrinally, evidentiary, grandiosity, identically, indignantly, indomitably, indubitably, interplayed, isoantibody, mandatorily, nonauditory, nonvalidity, pentaploidy, predynastic, rehydrating, rehydration, rudimentary, sedimentary, staphylinid, stipendiary, sustainedly, syndicalist, syndicating, syndication, syndicators, tyrannicide, unsteadying, vindicatory, vineyardist.

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