Dainty Meaning. Especially pleasing to the taste. From Old French daintie deintie choice morsel pleasure from Latin dignitas worthiness or beauty from dignus worthy.
1 Delicately small and pretty. ˈdeɪnti small delicate and often moving in a careful way. Especially pleasing to the taste.
Marked by delicate or diminutive beauty form.
An example of something dainty is a tiny little teacup with a beautiful design on it. Dainty means tiny delicate and lovely so you could describe a little china tea set as dainty and you could also call the tiny cakes on the little plates dainty. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted Familiarity information. The word was also used as an adjective in the later form deinte Old French deint i in the sense fine handsome pleasant.
