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

dainty, 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"

dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee

adj. affectedly dainty or refined

polished, refined, svelte, urbane

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, graceful, refined

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck

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

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

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

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile

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

exquisite, recherche

adj. lavishly elegant and refined

elegant, graceful, refined

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

graceful

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

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

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

ethereal, gossamer

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"

fragile

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

easy, gentle, soft

adj. having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"

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

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

choosy, choosey

adj. difficult to please

pernickety, persnickety

adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"

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"

old-maidish, old-womanish

adj. primly fastidious

civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite

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, debonnaire, suave

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

finespun, delicate

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"