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exquisite
adjective as in beautiful, excellent, finely detailed
Strongest matches
admirable, charming, delicate, delicious, elegant, ethereal, impeccable, lovely, meticulous, perfect, polished, precise, rare, refined, splendid, striking, subtle, superb
Weak matches
attractive, choice, comely, consummate, cultivated, dainty, discerning, discriminating, errorless, fastidious, fine, flawless, incomparable, irreproachable, matchless, outstanding, peerless, pleasing, precious, recherché, select, selective, superior, superlative
adjective as in intense
Strongest match
Weak matches
acute, concentrated, consummate, desperate, excruciating, extreme, fierce, furious, keen, piercing, sharp, terrible, transcending, vehement, vicious, violent
Example Sentences
"He is very deserving of this exquisite monument. The greatest president I've ever had. You will be missed by Ghanaians," one person posted, adding that Akufo-Addo was the "founder of Ghana's free education system".
"If you have a product that can be made beautiful, and exquisite, and sort of memorable, that tells some kind of story or has some kind of meaning, it will appeal to Africans and other people that are not African," she says.
Wolvaardt timed the ball beautifully from the outset with her trademark exquisite cover drives but Bosch's knock was a spectacle.
Writing for The Times in 2016, Charse Yun, a Korean American literary translator, acknowledged Smith’s “exquisite” sentences but said that the translation had ”morphed into a ‘new creation.’
For instance, he writes that, in October 2021, four months before Putin invaded Ukraine, the United States gathered “exquisite” intelligence, from a “human source inside the Kremlin,” that the Russians were preparing a multifront assault and that Putin intended to follow through.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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