daintier

ADJECTIVE

delicate, fragile, fine

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cute elegant ethereal exquisite graceful lacy neat petite tasteful tasty

STRONG

choice darling delicious fair frail light lovely nice pleasing savory superior sweet tender trim

WEAK

airy attractive beautiful bonny charming comely delectable delightful diaphanous feeble palatable precious pretty rare recherché refined select soft subtle thin toothsome well-made

Antonyms

STRONGEST

crude tasteless ugly unrefined unsophisticated

STRONG

bad dark disagreeable distasteful horrible inferior poor repulsive rough unpleasant

WEAK

accepting clumsy coarse easy harsh heavy

ADJECTIVE

finicky, particular

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delicate fussy tasteful

STRONG

acute nice

WEAK

choosy fastidious finical finicking mincing perceptive persnickety refined scrupulous

Antonyms

STRONGEST

uncritical

WEAK

accepting clumsy coarse easy harsh heavy rough

Example Sentences

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Gugino’s Sisco is flintier that Lopez's, and shades of her personality show up in “Jett.”

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2019

Colman and Weisz are Lanthimos veterans, and Weisz is even flintier here than she was in “The Lobster.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018

Dave Murphy, however, remained flintier in the aftermath: never able to fully unload himself of three years’ worth of layered fury.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2015

I mention this only because in recent months, in need of flintier forms of solace, I’ve increasingly and somewhat guiltily been bookmarking on my laptop the poems of Mark Ford.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014

The longma beat its wings, and Anja’s voice grew flintier.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell