Definition of Exquisite

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Exquisite

Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.

Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.

Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.

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 Quotations

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
Freddie Mercury

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
John Cleese

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
Lynn Abbey

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns

Exquisite Translations

exquisite in German is auserlesene
exquisite in Latin is exquisitus
exquisite in Spanish is exquisito

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