Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: exquisitely
IPA transcription: [,ɛkskw'ɪzɪtli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: finely, fine, delicately, exquisitely
    Meaning: in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
Usage examples
  • She was exquisitely simple
  • She was exquisitely dear to him.
  • One was a girl of twenty, laughing, exquisitely lovely.
  • It seemed to him that her clarity of soul found expression in her exquisitely pure singing tones.
  • They had a family of thirteen--twelve gallant sons, and one daughter, who was exquisitely beautiful.
  • There were melons, grapes, bananas, oranges, plums, strawberries, and pears and all were ripe and exquisitely flavored.
  • Her eyes were a dark grey, her complexion was exquisitely fine, and her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour.
  • It was a most beautiful little weapon, exquisitely finished; was a breech- loader, and threw a solid shot about a mile, and a shell nearly half as far again.
  • She was exquisitely dressed in dark blue velvet with a high collar of point lace tapering almost to her bust, and revealing a long white throat clasped at the base by a string of pearls.
  • With this we may compare what Klopstock says, writing of her: "How perfect was her taste! how exquisitely fine her feelings! she observed everything even to the slightest turn of the thought.