Exquisite vs Precise - What's the difference?
exquisite | precise |
Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
; far-fetched; abstruse.
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
(rare) Fop, dandy.
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*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .
Exact, accurate.
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(sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value.
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As an adjective exquisite
is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.As a noun exquisite
is (rare) fop, dandy.As a verb precise is
.exquisite
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beautiful, delicate, discriminatingNoun
(en noun)- 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.
precise
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.