exquisite

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing

   Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.

   • They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
   • Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.
2. 2

   Carefully adjusted

   Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.

3. 3

   Recherché

   Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.

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   1. 4

      Of special beauty or rare excellence.

   2. 5

      Exceeding

      Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

      • exquisite pain or pleasure
   3. 6

      Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination

      Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

      • exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
      • his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
   4. 7

      Fop, dandy.

      • It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.
      • When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.

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• synonymbeautiful
• synonymdelicate
• synonymdiscriminating
• synonymperfect