exquisite

The definition of exquisite is someone or something that is beautiful, delicate or of the highest quality.

(adjective)

See exquisite in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

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

Origin: 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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See exquisite in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution: an exquisite chalice.
Of such beauty or delicacy as to arouse intense delight: an exquisite sunset. See Synonyms at delicate.
Excellent; flawless: plays the piano with exquisite technique.
Acutely perceptive or discriminating: “Blind dolphins have been known to survive in the wild, guided by exquisite acoustic images of their prey” (Kenneth Browser).
Intense; keen: suffered exquisite pain.
Obsolete Ingeniously devised or thought out.