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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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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"
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exquisite [ekskwizit]
auserlesene

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exquisite

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exquisite

auserlesen; köstlich; exquisit adj
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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



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