DAINTY
\dˈe͡ɪnti], \dˈeɪnti], \d_ˈeɪ_n_t_i]\
Definitions of DAINTY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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affectedly dainty or refined
By Princeton University
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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"
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affectedly dainty or refined
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
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That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
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A term of fondness.
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Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
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Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
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Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
By Oddity Software
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Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
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That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
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A term of fondness.
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Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
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Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
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Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
By Noah Webster.
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Something choice or delicious.
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Delicious; delicate; sensitive; choice; fastidious; charming.
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Daintily.
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Daintiness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Daintily.
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Daintiness.
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Pleasant to the palate: delicate: fastidious.
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That which is dainty, a delicacy.
By Daniel Lyons
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Daintily.
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Daintiness.
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Delicate; delicious; fastidious; refined; decorous.
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Something delicious; a delicacy.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Of a nice taste to the palate; nice in one's tastes; fastidious; ceremonious; delicately elegant; affectedly fine.
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Something nice and delicate to the taste: a delicacy.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Pleasing to the taste; delicious; delicate; effeminately beautiful; affectedly particular as to food.
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Something nice to the taste; a delicacy.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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