exquisite

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of extreme beauty

   The museum houses some of the world's most exquisite works of art.

2. 2
   adj

   intense or sharp

   suffered exquisite pain

3. 3
   adj

   Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.

   They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.

4. 4
   adj

   Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

   exquisite pain or pleasure

5. 5
   adj

   Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

   exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment

6. 6
   noun

   Fop, dandy.

   It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.

7. 7
   adj

   delicately beautiful

8. 8
   adj

   lavishly elegant and refined

Etymology

From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“to outseek”).