Synonyms of the word

dainty

• n. (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
• n. A delicacy.
• n. (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event…
• n. (obsolete) An affectionate term of address.
• adj. (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
• adj. Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
• adj. Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.

aliment

• n. (now rare) Food.
• n. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
• n. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
• v. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
• v. To sustain, support.

alimentation

• n. feeding, being fed; the provision of food and other necessities.

delicacy

• n. The quality of being delicate.
• n. Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting…
• n. Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
• n. Frailty of health or fitness.
• n. Refinement in taste or discrimination.
• n. Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

delicate

• adj. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
• adj. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
• adj. Intended for use with fragile items.
• adj. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
• adj. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
• adj. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
• adj. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
• adj. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
• adj. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
• adj. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
• adj. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
• adj. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
• n. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
• n. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
• n. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

exquisite

• adj. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
• adj. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
• adj. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
• adj. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
• adj. Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
• adj. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
• n. (rare) Fop, dandy.

fastidious

• adj. Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
• adj. Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
• adj. Difficult to please; quick to find fault.

goody

• interj. Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
• n. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
• n. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
• n. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
• n. (obsolete) goodwife, a 17th-century puritan honorific.
• n. (informal) Protagonist or hero.
• n. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

kickshaw

• n. A dainty or delicacy.
• n. A trinket or gewgaw.

mincing

• v. present participle of mince.
• adj. Affectedly dainty.
• n. The act by which something is minced.

nice

• adj. (obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.
• adj. (now rare) Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
• adj. (obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
• adj. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
• adj. (obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
• adj. Respectable; virtuous.
• adj. Pleasant, satisfactory.
• adj. Of a person: friendly, attractive.
• adj. With "and", shows that the given adjective is desirable: pleasantly.
• adv. (colloquial) Nicely.
• interj. Used to signify a job well done.
• interj. Used to signify approval.
• v. (transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

niminy-piminy

• adj. overtly or excessively prim.

nourishment

• n. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished.
• n. Something that nourishes; food.

nutriment

• n. A source of nourishment; food.
• n. Something that promotes growth or development; a nutrient.

nutrition

• n. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.

overnice

• adj. Excessively nice.

prim

• adj. prudish, straight-laced.
• adj. formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice.
• v. (dated) To make affectedly precise or proper.
• v. (dated) To dress or act smartly.
• n. (plants) privet.

prissy

• adj. excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.
• adj. well-mannered, well-behaved.
• n. A person who is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.

refined

• v. simple past tense and past participle of refine.
• adj. Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly.
• adj. Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly.
• adj. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly.
• adj. (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
• n. (finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.

squeamish

• adj. easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
• adj. averse or reluctant.

sustenance

• n. Something that provides support or nourishment.

tasty

• adj. Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious.
• adj. (obsolete) Having or showing good taste; tasteful.
• adj. (slang) Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Skillful; highly competent.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Potentially violent.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

twee

• adj. (Britain, pejorative) Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.

victuals

• n. plural of victual.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victual.