Exquisite

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Characterized by highly skilled or intricate art; excellently made or formed.
  • adjective. Extremely or delightfully beautiful:
  • adjective. Excellent or outstanding, especially by exhibiting or appealing to refined taste.
  • adjective. Extremely subtle or precise.
  • adjective. Intense; keen.
  • adjective. Ingeniously devised or thought out.
  • noun. One who is excessively fastidious in dress, manners, or taste.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exceedingly choice, elegant, fine, or dainty; very delightful, especially from delicacy of beauty or perfection of any kind: as, a vase of exquisite workmanship; an exquisite miniature; exquisite lace.
  • Very accurate, delicate, or nice in action or function; especially, of keen or delicate perception or discrimination; delicately discriminating: as, exquisite taste, etc.
  • Giving or susceptible of pleasure or pain in the highest degree; intense; keen; poignant: as, exquisite joy or torture; an exquisite sensibility.
  • Curious; careful.
  • Skilful; cunning; consummate.
  • Recondite; deep. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, i. 10.
  • noun. A superfine gentleman; a dandy; a fop; a coxcomb.
  • noun. Synonyms Fop, Dandy, etc. See coxcomb.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
  • adjective. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction.
  • adjective. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense.
  • adjective. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
  • adjective. Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  • adjective. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
  • adjective. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. delicately beautiful
  • adjective. lavishly elegant and refined
  • adjective. of extreme beauty
  • adjective. intense or sharp
  • Word Usage
    "President's picture, full of grace and life, and richly meriting the term exquisite: nothing can be finer than the dark luxuriant hair contrasted with the alabaster delicacy and elegance of the features; the eyes too beam with benignant expressiveness."
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