adj.
(daintier, daintiest)
- delicately small and pretty.
▸delicate and graceful in build or movement.
- fastidious, typically concerning food.
n.
(pl. dainties)
a delicacy.
Derivative
- daintily adv.
- daintiness n.
Etymology
ME (as n.): from OFr. daintie, deintie ‘choice morsel, pleasure’, from L. dignitas ‘worthiness or beauty’, from dignus ‘worthy’.
