Exquisite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution: an exquisite chalice.
  • adj. Of such beauty or delicacy as to arouse intense delight: an exquisite sunset. See Synonyms at delicate.
  • adj. Excellent; flawless: plays the piano with exquisite technique.
  • adj. Acutely perceptive or discriminating: "Blind dolphins have been known to survive in the wild, guided by exquisite acoustic images of their prey” ( Kenneth Browser).
  • adj. Intense; keen: suffered exquisite pain.
  • adj. Obsolete Ingeniously devised or thought out.
  • n. One who is excessively fastidious in dress, manners, or taste.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
  • adj. Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  • adj. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
  • adj. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction.
  • adj. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense.
  • adj. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious.
  • n. One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
  • 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.
  • n. A superfine gentleman; a dandy; a fop; a coxcomb.
  • n. Synonyms Fop, Dandy, etc. See coxcomb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. delicately beautiful
  • adj. lavishly elegant and refined
  • adj. of extreme beauty
  • adj. intense or sharp
  • Equivalent
    delicate    elegant    beautiful    intense   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    consummate    rare    choice    delicate    exact    matchless    refined    nice    perfect    exceeding   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    delicate    peculiar    graceful    delicious    vivid    admirable