n. money extracted as a penalty

n. money extracted as a penalty

v. issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"

v. impose a fine on; "he was fined for littering"

adv. in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"

adv. sentence-initial expression of agreement

adj. thin in thickness or diameter; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"

adj. free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"

adj. of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"

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

adj. "June's halcyon weather"; "a fine day"

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"

adj. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

adj. minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"

adj. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"

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

adj. being satisfactorily healthy and reasonably happy: "I'm fine, and you?"; "I'm feeling all right again"

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

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

adj. of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"

n. the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"

n. a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

v. make underscoring marks

v. demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"

v. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"

adj. responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"

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

adj. of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"

adj. expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; "sympathetic to the students' cause"; "a sympathetic observer"; "a sympathetic gesture"

adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"

adj. responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"

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

adj. free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"

adj. expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; "sympathetic to the students' cause"; "a sympathetic observer"; "a sympathetic gesture"

adj. (of weather) free from storm or wind; "calm seas"

adj. not agitated; without losing self-possession; "spoke in a calm voice"; "remained calm throughout the uproar"; "he remained serene in the midst of turbulence"; "a serene expression on her face"; "she became more tranquil"; "tranquil life in the country"

adj. serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress; "the performer seemed completely composed as she stepped onto the stage"; "I felt calm and more composed than I had in a long time"

adj. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

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

adj. of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"

adj. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"

adj. of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones"

adj. of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"

adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"

adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"

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

adj. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"

adj. commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"

adj. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

adj. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

adj. eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"

adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"

adj. being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

adj. have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"

adj. inspiring admiration or approval; "among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness"

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

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

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

adj. responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"

adj. of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"

adj. free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"

adj. expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; "sympathetic to the students' cause"; "a sympathetic observer"; "a sympathetic gesture"

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"

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

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

adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

adj. very narrow; "a thin line across the page"

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

adj. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

adj. lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

adj. not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page"

adj. selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"

adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"

adj. most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied; "an optimum return on capital"; "optimal concentration of a drug"

adj. situated at the top or highest position; "the top shelf"

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

adj. small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"

adj. atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"

adj. small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"

adj. used of small deformed creatures

adj. half the usual or regular size

adj. infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"

adj. having or being distinguished by diminutive size: "the least bittern"

adj. extremely small in scale or scope or capability

adj. being on a very small scale; "a miniature camera"

adj. very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"

adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size

adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

adj. small or little relative to something else

adj. rather small

adj. created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model"

adj. smaller than normal for its kind

adj. used of cultures of microorganisms; not contaminated by or completely free of the presence of other organisms; "an axenic culture"

adj. "clean water"; "unpolluted streams"

adj. (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell"

adj. as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper"

adj. not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"

adj. made pure

adj. not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"

adj. free from admixture; "unalloyed metal"; "unalloyed pleasure"

adj. (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased; "uncorrupted English"; "learn to speak pure English undefiled"- Van Wyck Brooks

adj. having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"

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

adj. (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight

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

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

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

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

adj. of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"

adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

adj. dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

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

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

adj. ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty

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

adj. stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"

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

adj. mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth"; "a soft breeze"

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

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

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

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

adj. lavishly elegant and refined

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

adj. luxuriously elegant

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

adj. polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance

adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

adj. badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"

adj. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port"

adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

adj. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

adj. exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"

adj. not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"

adj. having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

adj. severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"

adj. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

adj. not favorable; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews"

adj. "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"

adj. not conducive to good moral development; "the movie is unsuitable for children"

adj. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"

adj. unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

adj. developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"

adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

adj. meticulously precise; "pinpoint accuracy"

adj. precisely as stated; "the very center of town"

adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

adj. expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"

adj. used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

adj. "a master plumber"; "a master thief"

adj. excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"

adj. (skilled)

adj. proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"

adj. competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer"

adj. of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"

adj. distinguished from all others in excellence: "a banner year for the company"

adj. selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-ribbon event of the season"

adj. exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag cornfield"

adj. holding first place in a contest; "a champion show dog"; "a prizewinning wine"

adj. of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"

adj. of the highest quality or value; "gilt-edged securities"; "gilt-edged credentials"

adj. well above average in performance: "a good student"

adj. highest in quality

adj. absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka quarters with a swarm of servants"

adj. marked by exceptional merit; "had shining virtues and few faults"; "a shining example"

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

adj. excellent; best possible

adj. exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

adj. skillfully constructed

adj. having no symptoms of illness or disease

adj. freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron

adj. "I feel good"; "felt fine"

adj. freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron

adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

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

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

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

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

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

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

adj. extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"

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

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

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

adj. thin in diameter; resembling a thread

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

adj. extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"

adj. thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"

adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

adj. of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"

adj. distinguished from all others in excellence: "a banner year for the company"

adj. selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-ribbon event of the season"

adj. exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag cornfield"

adj. holding first place in a contest; "a champion show dog"; "a prizewinning wine"

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

adj. of the highest quality or value; "gilt-edged securities"; "gilt-edged credentials"

adj. well above average in performance: "a good student"

adj. highest in quality

adj. absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka quarters with a swarm of servants"

adj. marked by exceptional merit; "had shining virtues and few faults"; "a shining example"

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

adj. excellent; best possible

adj. exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

adj. skillfully constructed

n. payment made in return for a service rendered

n. something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

adj. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"

adj. (of weather or climate) severe

adj. violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"

adj. of low or inferior quality

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

adj. not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"

adj. of low or inferior quality