DELICATE vs DAINTY: NOUN
- A choice dainty; a delicacy.
- A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
- A fastidious person.
- A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
- Something savory, luscious, or delicious; a delicacy; a dainty.
- Something considered choice to eat
- Fancy cookies, pastries, or squares served at a social event (usually plural).
- A delicacy.
- Esteem, honour.
- A term of fondness.
- That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
- Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
- Synonyms Tidbit, etc. See delicacy.
- Darling: a term of fondness.
- Pl. dainties (dān′ tiz). Something delicate to the taste; something delicious; a delicacy.
- A matter of joy or gratification; special regard or pleasure.
- Worth; value; excellence.
- Something delicious; a delicacy.
DELICATE vs DAINTY: ADJECTIVE
- Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical.
- Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.
- Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings
- Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color.
- Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface
- Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture.
- Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like.
- Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.”
- Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant
- Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
- Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite
- Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
- Easily hurt
- Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
- Easily broken or damaged or destroyed
- Difficult to handle; requiring great tact
- Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way.
- Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
- Exquisitely fine or dainty: : exquisite.
- Frail in constitution or health.
- Marked by sensitivity of discrimination.
- Very subtle in difference or distinction.
- Having or showing great consideration or care.
- Requiring careful or tactful treatment.
- Fine or soft in touch or skill.
- Measuring, indicating, or responding to very small changes; precise.
- Easily broken or damaged.
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
- Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
- Intended for use with fragile items.
- Of weak health, easily sick.
- Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
- Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
- Delicately beautiful
- Fastidious and fussy when eating.
- Delicately small and pretty.
- Excellent; valuable, fine.
- To assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness.
- Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
- Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
- Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
- Rare; valuable; costly.
- Frail in constitution or health.
- Fastidious or finicky.
- Delicious; tasty.
- Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small.
- Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
- Of delicate composition and artistry
- Affectedly dainty or refined
- Especially pleasing to the taste
DELICATE vs DAINTY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Pleasant, delicious, palatable, savory. Fastidious, discriminating. Sensitive.
- Pleasing to any of the senses, especially to the sense of taste; dainty; delicious: opposed to coarse or rough.
- Full of pleasure; luxurious; sumptuous; delightful.
- Fine in characteristic details; minutely perfect in kind; exquisite in form, proportions, finish, texture, manner, or the like; nice; dainty; charming: as, a delicate being; a delicate skin or fabric; delicate tints.
- Of a fine or refined constitution; refined.
- Nice in construction or operation; exquisitely adjusted or adapted; minutely accurate or suitable: as, a delicate piece of mechanism; a delicate balance or spring.
- Requiring nicety in action; to be approached or performed with caution; precarious; ticklish: as, a delicate surgical operation; a delicate topic of conversation.
- Nice in perception or action; exquisitely acute or dexterous; finely sensitive or exact; deft: as, a delicate touch; a delicate performer or performance.
- Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by attention to the opinions and feelings of others; refined: as, delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.
- Susceptible to disease or injury; of a tender constitution; feeble; not able to endure hardship: as, a delicate frame or constitution; delicate health.
- Nice in perception of what is agreeable to the senses or the intellect; peculiarly sensitive to beauty, harmony, or their opposites; dainty; fastidious: as, a delicate taste; a delicate eye for color.
- Agreeable; delightful; charming.
- Of an instrument or device
- Requiring great tact
- Difficult to handle
- Susceptible to injury
- Especially Of nice discrimination as regards taste; nice or over-nice in selecting what is preferred in any class of things, as food, clothing, etc.; hence, squeamish: as, a dainty taste or palate; dainty people.
- Of acute sensibility or nice discrimination; sensitive.
- Pleasing to the palate; toothsome; delicious: as, dainty food.
- Exhibiting or possessing delicate beauty, or exquisite taste or skill; elegant; beautiful; neat; trim.
- Valuable; costly.
- = Syn, 2. Pretty. Savory, luscious, toothsome.5 and Nice, Fastidious, etc. See nice.
- Nice as regards behavior, decorum, intercourse, etc.; fastidious; hence, affectedly fine; effeminate; weak.
DELICATE vs DAINTY: RELATED WORDS
- Refined, Frail, Hard, Pastel, Fine, Soft, Difficult, Gossamer, Ethereal, Subtle, Ticklish, Dainty, Exquisite, Sensitive, Fragile
- Refined, Fine, Squeamish, Goody, Nice, Delicacy, Fastidious, Mincing, Tasty, Tasteful, Twee, Prim, Delicate, Exquisite, Prissy
DELICATE vs DAINTY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Refined, Frail, Hard, Pastel, Fine, Soft, Difficult, Gossamer, Ethereal, Subtle, Ticklish, Dainty, Exquisite, Sensitive, Fragile
- Refined, Fine, Squeamish, Goody, Nice, Delicacy, Fastidious, Mincing, Tasty, Tasteful, Twee, Prim, Delicate, Exquisite, Prissy
DELICATE vs DAINTY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- See Democracy as the delicate flower it is.
- Robert Coleman tackles the delicate issue of backsliding.
- They look so delicate, but are extremely hardy.
- They are such soft, delicate and frilly blooms!
- LORD JOHN STEVENS: It was very delicate indeed.
- Tweezers can be helpful to position delicate pieces.
- Use care with delicate equipment to avoid damage.
- Scales are delicate instruments and unlike Cellular phones, scales have delicate sensors that determine how much an item weighs.
- Dry, Delicate Setting: Double lines indicate that the Delicate setting must be used.
- Judy Woodruff: And handled some very delicate, delicate moments.
- FANCY WHITE PLATTE VALENCIENNES LACES IN NEW DAINTY DESIGNS.
- Unique wrist is small, dainty, delicate and body art.
- Elevate your favorite chain with this dainty enamel pendant.
- Dainty, light blue flowers with yellow centers in spring.
- Gordon creates dainty pieces that are perfect for layering.
- Simpson took a dainty bite of her sandwich.
- Toma A, Bensimon CM, Dainty KN, et al.
- Ellis SM, Dainty KN, Munro G, Scales DC.
- Girl elf pirate clothes purchased from Dainty Dimples.
- DAINTY STOCK COLLARS ANO NECK WEAK k ISc.
DELICATE vs DAINTY: QUESTIONS
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