dainty

dainty /'deinti/
  • tính từ
    • ngon, chọn lọc (món ăn)
      • a dainty morsel: miếng ăn ngon
    • thanh nhã; xinh xắn; dễ thương
      • a dainty foot: bàn chân xinh xắn
      • a dainty girl: cô gái xinh xắn dễ thương
    • khó tính (trong cách ăn uống), khảnh ăn, kén ăn
    • chải chuốt cầu kỳ (trong cách ăn mặc); thích sang trọng, thích hoa mỹ
    • to be born with a dainty tooth
      • kén ăn, ăn uống khó tính
 chọn lọc
 hấp dẫn
 ngon

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dainty

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • affectedly dainty or refined; mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
  • delicately beautiful; exquisite

    a dainty teacup

    an exquisite cameo

  • especially pleasing to the taste

    a dainty dish to set before a kind

    a tasty morsel

  • excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

    too nice about his food to take to camp cooking

    so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

daintier|daintiest|dainties
syn.: cute delicate fresh pretty small
ant.: coarse distasteful tasteless unpalatable unsavory vulgar