exquisite

exquisite
    adj 1: intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt
           exquisite pleasure" [syn: {exquisite}, {keen}]
    2: lavishly elegant and refined [syn: {exquisite}, {recherche}]
    3: delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
       [syn: {dainty}, {exquisite}]
    4: of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"
    

Exquisite \Ex"qui*site\, n.
   One who manifests an exquisite attention to external
   appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop;
   a dandy.
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Exquisite \Ex"qui*site\, a. [L. exquisitus, p. p. of exquirere
   to search out; ex out + quarere to seek, search. See
   {Quest}.]
   1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing
      and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully
      excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite
      workmanship.
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            Plate of rare device, and jewels
            Of reach and exquisite form.          --Shak.
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            I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason
            good enough.                          --Shak.
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   2. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good
      sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
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   3. Of delicate perception or close and accurate
      discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice;
      fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
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            His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was
            exquisite.                            --Fuller.

   Syn: Nice; delicate; exact; refined; choice; rare; matchless;
        consummate; perfect.
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210 Moby Thesaurus words for "exquisite":
      Beau Brummel, accurate, acute, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing,
      agreeable, ambrosial, appealing, attentive, attractive, beauteous,
      beautiful, bewitching, blood, braw, buck, captivating, charming,
      chic, classy, close, clothes-conscious, conscientious, consummate,
      correct, cosmopolitan, coxcomb, critical, dainty, dandy, dapper,
      dashing, delectable, delicat, delicate, delicious, delightful,
      demanding, detailed, divine, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill,
      dude, elegant, enchanting, endowed with beauty, engaging,
      enravishing, enthralling, entrancing, errorless, euphemistic,
      euphuistic, exact, exacting, excruciating, exigent, extreme,
      eye-filling, fascinating, faultless, fetching, fine, finical,
      finicking, finicky, finished, flawless, flowerlike, fop,
      formalistic, fussy, genteel, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, good,
      good to eat, good-tasting, goody good-good, goody-goody, graceful,
      gracile, gustable, gusty, handsome, heart-robbing, heavenly, heavy,
      immaculate, immense, impeccable, intense, intriguing, inviting,
      irreproachable, irresistible, jaunty, juicy, keen, likable,
      lounge lizard, lovely, luscious, lush, luxurious, macaroni,
      magnificent, marvelous, meticulous, mincing, minute, namby-pamby,
      narrow, natty, neat, nectareous, nectarous, nice, nifty, nobby,
      of gourmet quality, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, palatable,
      particular, pedantic, pleasing, poignant, posh, precieuse,
      precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic,
      prepossessing, pretty, pulchritudinous, punctilious, punctual,
      puristic, rare, ravishing, recherche, refined, religious, rigid,
      rigorous, ritzy, sapid, savorous, savory, scrumptious, scrupulous,
      scrutinizing, select, sensational, sensuous, sharp, simpering,
      sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy,
      splendid, splendiferous, spruce, sterling, strict, style-conscious,
      subtle, succulent, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent,
      superfine, superior, superlative, swank, swanky, swell, taking,
      tantalizing, tasty, tempting, terrific, thrilling, titillative,
      toothsome, transcending, tremendous, tricksy, trig, trim, vivid,
      voluptuous, well-dressed, well-groomed, winning, winsome, witching,
      wonderful, yummy