Dainty vs Attractive - What's the difference?
dainty | attractive | Synonyms |
(obsolete) Esteem, honour.
A delicacy.
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
* (William Cowper)
(Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
(obsolete)
(obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
*, II.13:
Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
* Milton
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Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
Pleasing or appealing to the senses.
Dainty is a synonym of attractive.
As adjectives the difference between dainty and attractive
is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while attractive is causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.As a noun dainty
is (obsolete) esteem, honour.dainty
English
Noun
(dainties)- 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 .
- [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties , remnants of the last regale.
- (Ben Jonson)
Adjective
(er)- 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.
- Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
- They were a fine and dainty people.
- And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.
Synonyms
* neat * petiteReferences
*attractive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That's a very attractive offer.
- He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure.
