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1. Delicately beautiful
   "a dainty teacup";
   - exquisite
    
2. Especially pleasing to the taste
   "a dainty dish to set before a kind"
    
3. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
   "too dainty about his food to take to camp cooking";
   - nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

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

Derived forms: daintiest, daintier, dainties

See also: delicate, fastidious, tasty

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

Encyclopedia: Dainty, Christopher