Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dainty
IPA transcription: [d'eɪnti]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
    Meaning: affectedly dainty or refined
  • Synonyms: dainty, exquisite
    Meaning: delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
    Meaning: something considered choice to eat
Usage examples
  • "No dear," answered Polychrome, shaking her dainty head.
  • As for her complexion, it was a dainty pink-and-white, delicately blended.
  • She had done much fine and dainty work which she showed him with unaffected sweetness.
  • Flora was bolstered up in bed, and had on a dainty dressing-gown of pink muslin tied with white ribbons.
  • She was remarkably neat in her whole personal attire; but she was dainty as to the fit of her shoes and gloves.
  • He was proud of her delicate, flower-like beauty, of her dainty ways, and all her little schoolgirl accomplishments.
  • In my urchin-days, days free from prejudices in regard to what one ate, I, like many others, was able to appreciate that dainty.
  • The merchant and Beauty walked towards the large hall, where they found a table covered with every dainty, and two plates laid ready.
  • It was not easy for "Mag of the Alley" to become at once Margaret Kendall, the dainty little daughter of a well-bred, fastidious mother.
  • I want you to sew my lovely poppies over the collar and facings of the jacket, just spacing them a little and making a dainty irregularity.