Definition of "exquisite" in English

adjective

1. Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.

   • They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
   • Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.

2. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.

3. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.

4. Of special beauty or rare excellence.

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

   • exquisite pain or pleasure

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

   • exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment

noun

1. (rare) Fop, dandy.

   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42. So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement. 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.