exquisite
About 3.57 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
- adjective Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
- adjective Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- adjective Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- adjective Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
exquisite pain or pleasure
- adjective Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
- noun Fop, dandy. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Similar words
recherche elegant fine beautiful dainty delicate keen intense magnificent superb
Often followed by
and beauty taste in pleasure little workmanship delicacy sense
Word family
exquisitely exquisiteness exquisitenesses exquisites
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