exquisite

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely beautiful and delicate.

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

2. 2
   adj

   Extremely fine, pleasing, or of high quality.

   They sell good coffee, but their chocolate is exquisite.

3. 3
   adj

   Very intense or sharp, especially of pain or pleasure.

   She suffered exquisite pain after the fall.

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

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