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

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