| fine | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. amercement, fine, mulct | money extracted as a penalty. |
| ~ penalty | a payment required for not fulfilling a contract. |
| ~ library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned. |
| v. (social) | 2. fine, ticket | 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!" |
| ~ book | record a charge in a police register.; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man" |
| ~ amerce | punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court. |
| adj. | 3. all right, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay | being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.; "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" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ satisfactory | giving satisfaction.; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" |
| adj. | 4. fine | minutely precise especially in differences in meaning.; "a fine distinction" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 5. fine | thin in thickness or diameter.; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print" |
| ~ thin | of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" |
| adj. | 6. fine | 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" |
| ~ elegant | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" |
| adj. | 7. fine | 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" |
| ~ tight, close | of textiles.; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" |
| ~ close-grained, fine-grained | dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.; "close-grained birch"; "fine-grained rock" |
| ~ dustlike | as fine and powdery as dust. |
| ~ floury | resembling flour in fine powdery texture.; "a floury clay" |
| ~ nongranular | not having granules.; "clear nongranular cytoplasm" |
| ~ fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained | consisting of fine particles.; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" |
| ~ small | have fine or very small constituent particles.; "a small misty rain" |
| ~ superfine | of extremely fine size or texture.; "superfine sugar"; "a superfine file" |
| ~ smooth | 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. | 8. fine | free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity.; "gold 21 carats fine" |
| ~ metallurgy | the science and technology of metals. |
| ~ pure | free of extraneous elements of any kind.; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen" |
| adv. | 9. all right, alright, fine, ok, very well | an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence. |
| adv. | 10. delicately, exquisitely, fine, finely | in a delicate manner.; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body" |
| refined | | |
| adj. | 1. refined | (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel.; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" |
| ~ civilised, civilized | having a high state of culture and development both social and technological.; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" |
| ~ elegant | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" |
| ~ fastidious | giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" |
| ~ gracious | characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit.; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor" |
| ~ polished | perfected or made shiny and smooth.; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver" |
| ~ cultured, genteel, civilised, civilized, polite, cultivated | marked by refinement in taste and manners.; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" |
| ~ couth | (used facetiously) refined. |
| ~ dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee | affectedly dainty or refined. |
| ~ debonair, debonaire, debonnaire, suave | having a sophisticated charm.; "a debonair gentleman" |
| ~ finespun, delicate | developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety.; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" |
| ~ gentlemanlike, gentlemanly | befitting a man of good breeding.; "gentlemanly behavior" |
| ~ ladylike | befitting a woman of good breeding.; "ladylike manners" |
| ~ patrician | befitting a person of noble origin.; "a patrician nose" |
| ~ overrefined, superfine | excessively delicate or refined. |
| ~ well-bred, well-mannered | of good upbringing. |
| adj. | 2. processed, refined | freed from impurities by processing.; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold" |
| adj. | 3. polished, refined, svelte, urbane | 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" |
| ~ sophisticated | having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire.; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book" |
| adj. | 4. elegant, graceful, refined | suggesting taste, ease, and wealth. |
| ~ gracious | characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit.; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor" |
| adj. | 5. neat, refined, tasteful | free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" |
| ~ elegant | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" |
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