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

1. noun. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
2. noun. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
3. noun. A term of fondness.
4. superlative. Rare; valuable; costly.
5. superlative. Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
6. superlative. Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
7. superlative. Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
8. noun. something considered choice to eat

   Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat

9. adjective. delicately beautiful

   "a dainty teacup"

   "an exquisite cameo"

   Synonyms: exquisite

10. adjective. 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"

    Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

11. adjective. affectedly dainty or refined

    Synonyms: mincing, prim, twee

12. adjective. especially pleasing to the taste

    "a dainty dish to set before a kind"

Synonyms

delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat, exquisite, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish, mincing, prim, twee

Common word forms

daintier, dainties, daintily, daintiest

Words from these letters

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