Thesaurus: exquisite

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1. a. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
2. a. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
3. a. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
4. n. One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
5. adj. intense or sharp
6. adj. lavishly elegant and refined
7. adj. delicately beautiful
8. adj. of extreme beauty
9. 1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak. 2. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure. 3. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment. His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller. Syn. -- Nice; delicate; exact; refined; choice; rare; matchless; consummate; perfect. One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
10. One who manifests an exquisite attention to externalappearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
11. j:100 s. intense or sharp s. lavishly elegant and refined s. of extreme beauty