adjective
- Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
- usage: "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"
- Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning.
- usage: "a fine distinction"
- synonyms: fine
- Thin in thickness or diameter.
- usage: "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"
- synonyms: fine
- Characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment.
- usage: "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
- synonyms: fine
- Of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: fine
- Free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity.
- usage: "gold 21 carats fine"
- synonyms: fine
- Comparative of `fine'. ( greater in quality or excellence)
- usage: "a finer wine"; "a finer musician"
adverb
- An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence.
- In a delicate manner.
- usage: "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
- synonyms: finely, fine, delicately, exquisitely
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