exquisite
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.
Examples
- exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
- exquisite pain or pleasure
- Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.
- They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“I outseek”).
Synonyms
dainty, keen, recherche, Jemmy-Jessamy, barbermonger, beau, beautiful, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, delicate, dike, discriminating, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, perfect, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
Scrabble Score: 25
exquisite: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordexquisite: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
exquisite: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary