daintily | (adverb) in a dainty and fastidious manner | - |
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(adverb) in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace | - |
daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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(adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
(adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
(noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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disdain | (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, patronage |
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(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, scorn |
(verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
(verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
disdainful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, insulting, scornful |
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(adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
disdainfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, scornfully |
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(adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: cavalierly |
disdainfulness | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: condescension, superciliousness |
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foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
foreordained | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: predestinate, predestined |
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ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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(verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
(verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
(verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
ordained | (adjective) invested with ministerial or priestly functions | - |
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(adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, prescribed |
ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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