EXQUISITE
\ɛkskwˈɪsɪt], \ɛkskwˈɪsɪt], \ɛ_k_s_k_w_ˈɪ_s_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of EXQUISITE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Exquisitely.
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Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
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One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
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Exceeding; extreme; keen; - used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
By Oddity Software
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Exquisitely.
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Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
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One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
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Exceeding; extreme; keen; - used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Exquisitely.
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Exquisiteness.
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Intense.
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A dainty person; a fop; dandy.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sought out or searched for with care; hence, choice; select; nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as, a vase of exquisite workmanship: nice; accurate; of keen or delicate perception; great discrimination; as, exquisite sensibility, taste, etc.; "A poet of the most unbounded invention and the most exquisite judgment."-Addison: being pleasurable or painful in the highest degree; exceeding; extreme; keen; poignant; as, a painful and exquisite impression on the nerves; "The pleasures of sense are probably relished by beasts in a more exquisite degree than they are by men."-Bp. Atterbury; "The most exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an approving conscience."-J. M. Mason: given to searching out; curious.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Thomas Sheridan
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