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exquisite definition

ex·qui·site (eks′kwiz it, ek skwiz′it)

adjective

  1. carefully done or elaborately made an exquisite design
  2. very beautiful or lovely, esp. in a delicate or carefully wrought way exquisite lace
  3. of highest quality; consummate exquisite technique
  4. highly sensitive; keenly discriminating; fastidious an exquisite ear for music
  5. sharply intense; keen exquisite pain

Etymology: ME, carefully sought out < L exquisitus, pp. of exquirere, to search out < ex-, out + quaerere, to ask

noun

a person who makes a great show of being refined and fastidious in matters of taste, etc.

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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