exquisite
Meanings
Plural: exquisites
Adjective Satellite
- intense or sharp
- "suffered exquisite pain"
- "felt exquisite pleasure"
- lavishly elegant and refined
- delicately beautiful
- "an exquisite cameo"
- of extreme beauty
- "her exquisite face"
Adj
- Specially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
Noun
- Fop, dandy.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“I outseek”).
Synonyms
barbermonger, beau, beautiful, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dainty, dandy, delicate, dike, discriminating, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, keen, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, perfect, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, recherche, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
Scrabble Score: 25
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