Dictionary Entry
dainty
dainty is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
- 2noun
That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
- 3noun
A term of fondness.
- 4superlative
Rare; valuable; costly.
- 5superlative
Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
- 6superlative
Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
- 7superlative
Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
- 8noun
something considered choice to eat
- 9adjective
delicately beautiful
"a dainty teacup"
"an exquisite cameo"
Synonyms
- 10adjective
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"
- 11adjective
affectedly dainty or refined
- 12adjective
especially pleasing to the taste
"a dainty dish to set before a kind"
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