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.n. A superfine gentleman; a dandy; a fop; a coxcomb.n. Synonyms Fop, Dandy, etc. See coxcomb.