Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUK:
    • IPA: /ˈdeɪn.ti/
  • UttalUS

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Liknande ord

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
  2. A delicacy.
  3. (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).

Adjektiv

  1. (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
  2. Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
  3. Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.

Exempel

  • [...]my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties.
  • [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties, remnants of the last regale.
  • Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.
  • Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
  • However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
  • They were a fine and dainty people.
  • And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.

Böjningsformer

Pluraldainties
Komparativdaintier
Superlativdaintiest