EGAVE

exquisite

About 3.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
    They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
  2. adjective Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  3. adjective Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
  4. adjective Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  5. adjective Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
    exquisite pain or pleasure
  6. adjective Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
    exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
  7. 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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