dainty vs pretty

dainty

adj
  • Elegant; delicately small and pretty. 

  • Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating. 

noun
  • A delicacy (in taste). 

  • A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event. 

pretty

adj
  • Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. 

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

  • Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. 

  • Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. 

  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

adv
  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. 

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

  • A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. 

How often have the words dainty and pretty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )