dainty

Noun
  1. Something considered choice to eat (synset 107572730)
    is a type of: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals - a source of materials to nourish the body
    subtypes:
    • choice morsel, tidbit, titbit - a small tasty bit of food
    • savory, savoury - an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre
    • confection, sweet - a food rich in sugar
    • ambrosia, nectar - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
    • gelatin, jelly - an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
    • bone marrow, marrow - very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
    same as: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
Adjective
  1. Delicately beautiful (synset 300709755)
    "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
    similar to: delicate - exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
    same as: exquisite
  2. Especially pleasing to the taste (synset 302405164)
    "a dainty dish to set before a kind"
    similar to: tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste
  3. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted (synset 300987524)
    "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
    similar to: fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
    same as: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

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