Usually means: Delicately small and pretty; elegant.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word dainty:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dainty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dainty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dainty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dainty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dainty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dainty, dainty: Wordnik
  7. dainty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dainty: Wiktionary
  9. dainty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dainty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dainty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dainty, dainty: Dictionary.com
  13. dainty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dainty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dainty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dainty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dainty: Rhymezone
  18. dainty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dainty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dainty: Free Dictionary
  21. dainty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dainty: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. dainty: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dainty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dainty: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. Dainty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See daintier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
adjective:  Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
adjective:  (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
noun:  A delicacy (choice or pleasing food).
noun:  (Northwestern Ontario, Canadian Prairies, British Columbia, usually in the plural) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event.
noun:  (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
noun:  (obsolete) An affectionate term of address.

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