Exquisitely fashioned; delicately beautiful.

Delicate in structure or texture; fine, thin. Also: little, small.

Exceptionally or beautifully fine in texture, substance, structure, etc.; very soft; gracefully slender or slight.

= minion, adj. 2b.

Dainty, neat; elegant, fine. Of an animal or thing. Obsolete.

Dainty, neat; elegant, fine. Of a person, group of people, or their actions. Obsolete.

Of a person or his or her movements: dainty, fastidious; (also) mincing, effeminate. Obsolete.

Of delicate or tender beauty or grace; delicately pretty; made with delicate taste.

Originally, of a girl or woman: dainty, elegant, sprightly. In later use, applied to both sexes: affected, mincing, or (of a man) effeminate. Also…

= dainty, adj.

? Rare, fine, delicate, pretty, ‘nice’.

= minikin, adj.1

Delightful, pleasing; (also) fine, fragile; = delicate, adj.

= minikin, adj.1

In eulogistic sense: Dainty, pretty. Obsolete.

Small and pretty. Cf. mignon, adj.

Neat, trim, dainty; small, tiny, trifling.

Having the ethereal qualities associated with a fairy; delicate, light; graceful; immaterial. Also: enchanting, magical. Now rare.

Delicately formed; prettily small or delicate.

Dainty, delicate; affected, mincing.