Dainty vs Accurate - What's the difference?

Dainty is a related term of accurate.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between dainty and accurate

is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while accurate is (obsolete) precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

As adjectives the difference between dainty and accurate

is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while accurate is in exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

As a noun dainty

is (obsolete) esteem, honour.

dainty

English

Noun

(dainties)

(obsolete) Esteem, honour.

A delicacy.

* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties .

* (William Cowper)

[A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties , remnants of the last regale.

(Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).

(obsolete)

(Ben Jonson)

Adjective

(er)

(obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.

*, II.13:

Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.

Elegant; delicately small and pretty.

* Milton

Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.

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Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.

* Francis Bacon

They were a fine and dainty people.

* Shakespeare

And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.

Synonyms

* neat * petite

References

accurate

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

* Bacon

Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.

Usage notes

* We speak of a thing as correct' with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a '''correct''' account, a '''correct''' likeness, a man of ' correct deportment. * We speak of a thing as accurate' with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an '''accurate''' statement, an ' accurate detail of particulars. * We speak of a thing as exact' with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an '''exact''' coincidence, the '''exact''' truth, an ' exact likeness. * We speak of a thing as precise' when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if ''cut down'' thereto; as a '''precise''' conformity instructions; '''precisely''' right; he was very ' precise in giving his directions.

Synonyms

* correct * exact * just * nice * particular

Antonyms

* inaccurate

Derived terms

* accuracy * accurately

Anagrams

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