Word Meanings - EXQUISITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak.

Additional info about word: EXQUISITE

1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak. 2. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure. 3. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment. His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller. Syn. -- Nice; delicate; exact; refined; choice; rare; matchless; consummate; perfect.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXQUISITE)

• Choice
• Select
• exquisite
• precious
• dainty
• cherished
• valuable
• excellent
• rare
• Dainty
• refined
• tasty
• luxurious
• epicurean
• Delicious
• Exquisite
• delightful
• choice
• Ineffable
• Inexpressible
• inconceivable
• insurpassable
• indeclarable
• indescribable
• perfect
• Pleasant
• Grateful
• agreeable
• acceptable
• pleasurable
• desirable
• gratifying
• cheerful
• enlivening
• sportive
• delicious
• delectable
• jocular
• satisfactory
• merry

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXQUISITE)

• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to EXQUISITE)

• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• LUXURIOUS
  Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
• INCONCEIVABLE
  Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion. It
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• PRECIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• PRECIOUS
  1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• PERFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• INDELECTABLE
  Not delectable; unpleasant; disagreeable. Richardson.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.