Difference between Dainty and Nice

What is the difference between Dainty and Nice?

Dainty as an adjective is delicately small and pretty. while Nice as an adjective is of a thing or person or event, pleasant, pretty.

Dainty

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Delicately small and pretty. Fastidious and fussy when eating.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A delicacy. Fancy cookies, pastries, or squares served at a social event (usually plural).

Example sentence: It's hard to be dainty and la la la when you're also supposed to be strong.

Nice

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a thing or person or event, pleasant, pretty.Admirable, enviable.Innocent; gentle; distinguished by perceived class or virtue.Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.Neat; elegantly succinct.Bordering on failure or disaster; succeeding by the narrowest of margins.With "and", excellent, pleasantly.

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: Used to signify a job well done.

Example sentence: Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

We hope you now know whether to use Dainty or Nice in your sentence.

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