daintily

1. 1.

   in a dainty and fastidious manner

   “she nibbled daintily at her cake”
2. 2.

   in a delicate manner

   “the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold”

Questions about daintily

What does daintily mean?

daintily means "in a dainty and fastidious manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in daintily?

daintily has 3 syllables: dain-ti-ly. The stress falls on "dain". In IPA it is /ˈdeɪntəˌli/.

Is daintily a common word?

daintily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with daintily?

42 words rhyme with daintily. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.