1. Affectedly dainty or refined
   - mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee [Brit] 
2. Delicately beautiful
   "a dainty teacup"
   - exquisite 
3. Especially pleasing to the taste
   "a dainty dish to set before a kind" 
4. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
   - nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

1. Something considered choice to eat
   - delicacy, goody, kickshaw [archaic], treat

Derived forms: daintiest, dainties, daintier

See also: daintily, daintiness, delicate, fastidious, refined, tasty

Type of: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals

• tocainide
• decidable
• decide
• decided
• decidedly
• decider
• deciding
• decidua
• deciduous
• deciduous holly
• deciduous plant
• deciduous tooth
• decigram
• decigramme
• decile
• deciliter
• decilitre
• decimal
• decimal digit
• decimal fraction
• decimal notation
• decimal number system
• decimal numeration system
• decimal point
• decimal system