Exquisite

Word EXQUISITE
Character 9
Hyphenation ex qui site
Pronunciations /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Exquisite"

What do we mean by exquisite?

Characterized by highly skilled or intricate art; excellently made or formed. adjective

Extremely or delightfully beautiful: adjective

Excellent or outstanding, especially by exhibiting or appealing to refined taste. adjective

Extremely subtle or precise. adjective

Intense; keen. adjective

Ingeniously devised or thought out. adjective

One who is excessively fastidious in dress, manners, or taste. noun

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.

A superfine gentleman; a dandy; a fop; a coxcomb. noun

Synonyms Fop, Dandy, etc. See coxcomb. noun

Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction. adjective

Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense. adjective

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

One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy. noun

Fop, dandy.

When something is wonderful, marvelous, great, amazing, and fantastic, exquisite sums up all of these words in one. Urban Dictionary

Beautiful in its own way; outstanding beauty Urban Dictionary

Carefully selected:choice. archaic:accurate marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, marked with subtle understanding or deep sensitivity. Urban Dictionary

Exquisite means awesome, when you want to show love and appreciation. Also, a posh way to say good. Urban Dictionary

A fancy way of saying fancy Urban Dictionary

The act of taking property from Native Americans. Urban Dictionary

Something having the property of being exquisit Urban Dictionary

That which is exquisite Urban Dictionary

A fancy way of saying fancy (Mostly used by rich people because it's a ten dollar word) Urban Dictionary

Beautiful Refined and a place to buy things that are Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Exquisite

The word "exquisite" in example sentences

President's picture, full of grace and life, and richly meriting the term exquisite: nothing can be finer than the dark luxuriant hair contrasted with the alabaster delicacy and elegance of the features; the eyes too beam with benignant expressiveness. ❋ Various (N/A)

The cumulative effect is devastating, as DeLillo in exquisite increments lowers the reader into an inexorable rendezvous with raw terror. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Big House was of sturdy concrete, but here was marble in exquisite delicacy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you watch the briefing (which I recommend, you can view it off of Space Multimedia) it is explained in exquisite detail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tolkien can be seen as the archetype, constructing languages, histories, location in exquisite detail for his Middle Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Step 1 of the preemie research uses a technology called optical coherence tomography, or OCT, that beams light to create a map of the back of the eye, showing the retina's layers in exquisite detail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each of them travel throughout the many cities of Europe tracking Dracula and tracking each other through their letters; clearly Kostova herself traveled to each of this cities, for the book is partially a travel log of Europe, written in exquisite detail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We had attended Morning Chant and were now seated for breakfast, disheartened but not surprised that the early Greys had already taken the bacon, and it remained only in exquisite odor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These fossils represent a record of the Cambrian explosion and "they are precious because they preserve in exquisite detail ... the soft anatomy of organisms." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lakes get described in exquisite detail, Clete beats the wrong guy, but it was well deserved anyway. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

The ability to model the Earth in exquisite three-dimensional detail was previously only approached on the desktops of professional users of geographical information systems (GIS). ❋ Unknown (2006)

The ability to model the Earth in exquisite three-dimensional detail was previously only approached on the desktops of professional users of geographical [...] ❋ Unknown (2006)

Most important, it articulates its academic requirements in exquisite detail, and focuses on those measures of institutional performance that are most germane to its mission. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I cannot reply in exquisite and accurate detail here in public as to the reason for that. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In his February 5 presentation to the Security Council, Powell referred to “the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed … which describes in exquisite detail deception activities.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

That [pasta] was exquisite [mother]. ❋ Lindsay (2004)

[The flamingo] is an [exquisite] [creature] ❋ Jakeyyyboyy4761 (2016)

The [musician] has [exquisite] [skill]. The artist is exquisite. ❋ Exquisite (2013)

[Hey], that [drawing] is [exquisite]! ❋ Not A Gnelf, But A Gnome. (2019)

[Madam] [may I] tell you that your taste in wine is [exquisite] ❋ Koliman (2020)

Christohper [Columbus] was the first person to [partake] in the act of [exquisitism]. ❋ Chris Columbus. (2019)

The [exquisitivity] of [the ice] from [Chick-fil-a] was high. ❋ Carl1 (2020)

The exquisition of his [music] was [impossible] to describe. ❋ Melvid (2019)

[Madam] [may I] just tell you that your taste in [wine] is Exquisite ❋ Koliman (2020)

"You [oughta] see [the stuff] on [exquisite].co.uk" ❋ Xqizit Chez (2003)

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