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EXQUISITE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of extreme beauty
Example:
her exquisite face
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Derivation:
exquisiteness (extreme beauty of a delicate sort)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Delicately beautiful
Example:
an exquisite cameo
Synonyms:
dainty; exquisite
Classified under:
Similar:
delicate (exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lavishly elegant and refined
Synonyms:
exquisite; recherche
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Intense or sharp
Example:
felt exquisite pleasure
Synonyms:
exquisite; keen
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Context examples:
Thanks to Hubble's exquisite sharpness, the photo unveils the effect of space warping due to gravity.
(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)
You might be able to fit in a romantic trip to a warm and sunny spot because Mars, your guardian planet, will be in exquisite harmony with the full moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Some of the world's most exquisite fossil beds were formed millions of years ago during time periods when Earth's oceans were largely without oxygen.
(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)
Nothing could destroy its exquisite oval, its well-nigh classic lines, its delicately stencilled brows, its large brown eyes, clear-seeing and calm, gloriously calm.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Every part, brain and body, nerve tissue and fibre, was keyed to the most exquisite pitch; and between all the parts there was a perfect equilibrium or adjustment.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I took her to the sign of the exquisite, and treated her with an elopement, her name's Emily, and she lives in the east?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"This man says, 'An exquisite book, full of truth, beauty, and earnestness.' 'All is sweet, pure, and healthy.'" continued the perplexed authoress.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was not a photograph but an ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the exquisite mouth.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An exquisite, fascinating fossil find in northern China has provided new evidence that some Jurassic dinosaurs developed membranous wings like those seen in modern day bats.
(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
