Synonyms for dainty
ˈdeɪn tidain·ty

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1. daintyadjective

   Synonyms:
   petite, neat

2. daintyadjective

   Excellent; valuable, fine.

   Synonyms:
   petite, neat

3. daintyadjective

   Delicately small and pretty.

   Synonyms:
   neat, petite

4. daintyadjective

   Fastidious and fussy when eating.

   Synonyms:
   neat, petite

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1. dainty

   That is delicious which affords a gratification at once vivid and delicate to the senses, especially to those of taste and smell; as, delicious fruit; a delicious odor; luscious has a kindred but more fulsome meaning, inclining toward a cloying excess of sweetness or richness. Savory is applied chiefly to cooked food made palatable by spices and condiments. Delightful may be applied to the higher gratifications of sense, as delightful music, but is chiefly used for that which is mental and spiritual. Delicious has a limited use in this way; as, a delicious bit of poetry; the word is sometimes used ironically for some pleasing absurdity; as, this is delicious! Compare DELIGHTFUL.

   Synonyms:
   delicious, delightful, exquisite, luscious, savory

   Antonyms:
   acrid, bitter, loathsome, nauseous, repulsive, unpalatable, unsavory

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1. dainty

   Synonyms:
   choice, rare, refined, tasty, exquisite, luxurious, epicurean

   Antonyms:
   common, coarse, unrelishing, nasty, dirty, omnivorous, greedy, gluttonous

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1. dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treatadjective

   something considered choice to eat

   Synonyms:
   discreetness, slightness, finesse, delicacy, diplomacy, discretion, kickshaw, goody, treat, fineness, fragility, airiness, daintiness

   Antonyms:
   unfastidious, tasteless, rugged, unrefined

2. dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, tweeadjective

   affectedly dainty or refined

   Synonyms:
   mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, overnice, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, prudish, strait-laced, tight-laced, nice, straight-laced, niminy-piminy, victorian, prim, exquisite, twee, square-toed

   Antonyms:
   tasteless, unfastidious, rugged, unrefined

3. dainty, exquisiteadjective

   delicately beautiful

   "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

   Synonyms:
   overnice, exquisite, keen, recherche, squeamish, twee, niminy-piminy, prim, nice, prissy, mincing

   Antonyms:
   unfastidious, tasteless, unrefined, rugged

4. daintyadjective

   especially pleasing to the taste

   "a dainty dish to set before a kind";

   Synonyms:
   overnice, exquisite, squeamish, twee, niminy-piminy, prim, nice, prissy, mincing

   Antonyms:
   tasteless, unfastidious, rugged, unrefined

5. dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamishadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, decent, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, overnice, skillful, straight-laced, gracious, tight-laced, nice, strait-laced, niminy-piminy, courteous, prudish, victorian, prim, exquisite, twee, square-toed

   Antonyms:
   tasteless, rugged, unfastidious, unrefined

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1. daintyadjective

   Synonyms:
   delicious, savory, nice, delicate, tender, palatable, luscious, toothsome

2. daintyadjective

   Synonyms:
   elegant, beautiful, neat, fine

3. daintyadjective

   Synonyms:
   fastidious, squeamish, scrupulous, over-nice

4. daintynoun

   Synonyms:
   delicacy, tidbit, tit-bit, nice bit, choice morsel, delicate morsel

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1. daintyadjective

   Synonyms:
   fastidious, squeamish, finical, delicate, exquisite

2. daintynoun

   Synonyms:
   delicacy, tidbit, treat, rarebit, bonne bouche

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1. Luigi Barzini:

   They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.