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Adjectives (5)

exquisite

adj. of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"

exquisite

adj. intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"

recherche

adj. lavishly elegant and refined

fine, dainty

adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

Fuzzynyms (53)

chic, smart

adj. elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"

fine, excellent

adj. of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

good, estimable, respectable, honorable, honourable

adj. deserving of esteem and respect; "all respectable companies give guarantees"; "ruined the family's good name"

supreme, superb

adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"

pleasing, aesthetic, artistic

adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"

urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

glorious, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous

adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"

dainty, prim, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee

adj. affectedly dainty or refined

elegant, refined, graceful

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

graceful

adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

elegant, refined, graceful

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

bantam, diminutive, midget, lilliputian, petite, tiny

adj. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"

Synonyms (103)

fair, attractive, sightly

adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

beauteous

adj. (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight

fair, bonny, bonnie, comely

adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

fine, braw

adj. "`braw' is Scottish: 'tis a braw bricht moonlict nicht"; "a fine evening"

glorious, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous

adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"

charming

adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"

fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured

adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman

lovely

adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

gorgeous

adj. dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

picturesque

adj. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"

pretty

adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"

pretty-pretty

adj. ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty

pulchritudinous

adj. used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"

ravishing

adj. stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"

scenic

adj. used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"

aggravated, intensified

adj. made more severe or intense especially in law; "aggravated assault"

bad, big

adj. very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"

blood-and-guts

adj. marked by great zeal or violence; "real blood-and-guts fiction"; "blood-and-guts football"

concentrated

adj. intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay"

consuming, overwhelming

adj. very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"

crash

adj. highly concentrated or intense: "a crash course"

extreme, deep, severe, horrible, terrible, profound, such

adj. intense or extreme in degree or quality: "intense anxiety,"; "extreme cold"; "deep trouble"; "horrible weather"; "profound regret"; "severe pain"; "such grief"; "a terrible cough"

violent, vehement, fierce

adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"

high, heavy, big, violent

adj. marked by intense physical force: "a big wind"; "a violent squall"; "heavy seas"; "high winds"

raging, hot

adj. very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"

concentrated, intensive

adj. characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"

intensive

adj. characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"

main

adj. of force; of the greatest possible intensity; "by main strength"

pronounced, strong

adj. not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber"

thick

adj. (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"

thickening

adj. becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"

unabated

adj. continuing at full strength or intensity; "the winds are unabated"; "the popularity of his books among young people continued unabated"

utmost, uttermost

adj. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"

bijou

adj. small and elegant: "bijou villas"; "can Americans be persuaded to pay out dollars for bijou cars?"

dandified, dandyish, foppish

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

luxury, deluxe, luxe, de luxe

adj. elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations"

fine, smart

adj. characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"

high-class, high-toned

adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

swank, ritzy, swanky

adj. luxuriously elegant

simple

adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.

soigne, well-groomed, soigné

adj. polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance

gossamer, ethereal

adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

faint, subtle

adj. faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"

frail, fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

light, gentle, soft

adj. exerting little force or pressure: "the light touch of her fingers"; "a soft rain"; "a gentle breeze"

half-hardy

adj. (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"

light-handed

adj. having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker

overdelicate

adj. extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"

pastel

adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"

tender, unresistant

adj. (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

Antonyms (1)

ugly

adj. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

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