DAINTY Synonyms

• able to attract interest or draw favorable attention

• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

• delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

• (of weather) highly enjoyable

• pleasing or delighting

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

• marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique

• easily broken or damaged or destroyed

• easily hurt

• developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

• of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

• a small locomotive

• small and unimpressive

• (British informal) pretty and neat

• refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

• of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles

• money extracted as a penalty

• an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence

• in a delicate manner

• being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

• minutely precise especially in differences in meaning

• thin in thickness or diameter

• characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment

• free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity

• record a fine as a penalty in a police record

• impose a fine on

• characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model

• appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

• lovable especially in a childlike or naive way

• to certain extent or degree

• pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing

• (used ironically) unexpectedly bad

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

• the slender part of the back

• a garment size for a small person

• on a small scale

• relatively moderate, limited, or small

• (of children and animals) young, immature

• slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope

• low or inferior in station or quality

• lowercase

• (of a voice) faint

• have fine or very small constituent particles

• not large but sufficient in size or amount

• made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance

• something considered choice to eat

• refined taste; tact

• slenderness

• lack of physical strength

• subtly skillful handling of a situation

• lightness in movement or manner

• something considered choice to eat

• something considered choice to eat

• clean or organized

• showing care in execution

• free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed

• superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject

• excellent

• (of an alcoholic drink) without water

• pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance

• a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

• socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous

• done with delicacy and skill

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• exhibiting courtesy and politeness

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• a garment size for short or slender women

• very small