| ADJECTIVE | all | dainty, exquisite | delicately beautiful |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | dainty | especially pleasing to the taste | |
| all | dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish | excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | |
| NOUN | food | dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat | something considered choice to eat |
| Sounds | dey'ntiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | delicately beautiful. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a dainty teacup" | |
| Synonym | exquisite | |
| Broader | delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing |
| Spanish | delicado, exquisito, refinado | |
| Nouns | daintiness | the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance |
| Adverbs | daintily | in a delicate manner |
| Meaning | especially pleasing to the taste. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a dainty dish to set before a kind" | |
| Broader | tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste |
| Spanish | gustoso, rico, sabroso, suculento | |
| Catalan | bo, gustós, suculent | |
| Nouns | dainty | something considered choice to eat |
| Meaning | excessively fastidious and easily disgusted. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish | |
| Broader | fastidious | Giving careful attention to detail |
| Spanish | escrupuloso, puntilloso, quisquilloso | |
| Catalan | escrupulós, primmirat | |
| Adverbs | daintily | in a refined manner |
| Meaning | Something considered choice to eat. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat | |
| Narrower | ambrosia, nectar | (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods |
| choice morsel, tidbit, titbit | A small tasty bit of food | |
| gelatin, jelly | An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating / coating for foods | |
| marrow, bone marrow | Very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones | |
| savory, savoury | An aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | |
| sweet, confection | A food rich in sugar | |
| Broader | nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals | A source of materials to nourish the body |
| Spanish | exquisitez, golosina | |
| Catalan | exquisidesa, exquisitat | |
| Adjectives | dainty | especially pleasing to the taste |
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