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n. something considered choice to eat

adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

prim, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee

adj. affectedly dainty or refined

refreshment

n. snacks and drinks served as a light meal

relish, appetizer

n. food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)

hors d'oeuvre

n. a dish served as an appetizer before the main meal

urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

elegant, refined, graceful

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

bantam, diminutive, midget, lilliputian, petite, tiny

adj. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"

delicate

adj. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"

Victorian, prim, prissy, square-toed, puritanical, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

sick, nauseated, queasy, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

exquisite, recherche

adj. lavishly elegant and refined

elegant, refined, graceful

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

graceful

adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

Victorian, prim, prissy, square-toed, puritanical, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

gossamer, ethereal

adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

faint, subtle

adj. faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"

frail, fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

light, gentle, soft

adj. exerting little force or pressure: "the light touch of her fingers"; "a soft rain"; "a gentle breeze"

half-hardy

adj. (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"

light-handed

adj. having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker

overdelicate

adj. extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"

pastel

adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"

tender, unresistant

adj. (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

ambrosial, ambrosian, nectarous

adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food"

bitter

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine

bitterish

adj. somewhat bitter

bittersweet, semisweet

adj. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness

delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy

adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

seasoned, flavored, flavoured

adj. aged or processed; "seasoned wood"

flavorful, flavourful, flavorous, flavourous, flavorsome, flavoursome, sapid, saporous

adj. full of flavor

rich, full-bodied

adj. marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

savory, savoury, piquant, spicy, zesty

adj. having an agreeably pungent taste

salt, salty

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

smoky

adj. tasting of smoke; "smoky sausages"

sour

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

sweet

adj. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

winy

adj. having the taste of wine; "a rich winy taste"

particular, choosy, choosey

adj. difficult to please

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

exacting

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

fussy, old-maidish, old-womanish

adj. primly fastidious

civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

couth

adj. (used facetiously) refined

debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire

adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"

delicate, finespun

adj. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"

gentlemanlike, gentlemanly

adj. befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"

ladylike

adj. befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"

superfine, overrefined

adj. excessively delicate or refined

well-mannered, well-bred

adj. of good upbringing

gluttonous

adj. given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

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