Dainty

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[n] something considered choice to eat
[adj] of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
[adj] 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"
[adj] affectedly dainty or refined
[adj] especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"

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Synonyms

delicacy, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, goody, kickshaw, mincing, nice, niminy-piminy, overnice, prim, prissy, refined, squeamish, tasteful, tasty, treat, twee

Related Terms

acute, agreeable, airy, ambrosia, ambrosial, appetizing, attenuate, attenuated, beautiful, bleached, bonne bouche, bonny, breakable, bright, brittle, cate, cheap-jack, choice, choice morsel, civilized, clean, cleanly, cobwebby, comestible, comfit, crumbly