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Textual thesaurus for "dainty"

(adj) exquisite

delicately beautiful

a dainty teacup; an exquisite cameo


(adj) prissy, squeamish, overnice, nice

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


(adj) niminy-piminy, mincing, prim, twee

affectedly dainty or refined


(noun) delicacy, goody, treat, kickshaw

something considered choice to eat