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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.
If you describe a movement, person, or object as dainty, you mean that they are small, delicate, and pretty.
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. 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.
adjective. uk / ˈdeɪnti / us. Add to word list. small, attractive, and delicate: dainty feet. daintily. adverb. (Definition of dainty from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of dainty. in Chinese (Traditional) 小巧玲瓏的，嬌小的，小巧精美的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 小巧玲珑的，娇小的，小巧精美的… See more. in Spanish.
