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exquisite
/ˈɛkskwəzət/
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What does exquisite mean?
adjective
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
noun
- (rare) Fop, dandy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛkskwəzət/
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United with that fatal circumstance, the body of proof was too weighty for Rebecca’s youth, though combined with the most exquisite beauty.
At Madame de T.’s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness.
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His exquisite politeness was then described, and the ultra acuteness and nervosity which resulted in that power of divination which he possessed.
Overwhelmed by the exquisite triumph of having got him back among us, I let him do what he liked with my hands.
It is this exquisite undertone, heard and yet unheard, which brings the mind into sweet accordance with the wonderful instrument of nature.