Nouns (4)
delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
n. something considered choice to eat
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (12)
fine, exquisite
adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
choice, tasty
adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"
nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
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
Fuzzynyms (59)
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"
Synonyms (88)
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"
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
Antonyms (1)
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"
dainty
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