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Exquisite

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.

    "They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite."

  2. 2
    Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact. obsolete
  3. 3
    Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
  4. 4
    Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  5. 5
    Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

    "exquisite pain or pleasure"

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  1. 6
    Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

    "exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of extreme beauty wordnet
  2. 2
    delicately beautiful wordnet
  3. 3
    lavishly elegant and refined wordnet
  4. 4
    intense or sharp wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Fop, dandy. rare

    "It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“I outseek”).

Etymology 2

From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“I outseek”).

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