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Fine   /faɪn/   Listen
Fine

adjective
(compar. finer; superl. finest)
1.
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.  Synonyms: all right, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay.  "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"
2.
Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning.
3.
Thin in thickness or diameter.  "Fine hairs" , "Read the fine print"
4.
Characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment.  "Looking fine in her Easter suit" , "A fine gentleman" , "Fine china and crystal" , "A fine violinist" , "The fine hand of a master"
5.
Of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles.  "Fine powdery snow" , "Fine rain" , "Batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave" , "Covered with a fine film of dust"  Antonym: coarse.
6.
Free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity.
noun
1.
Money extracted as a penalty.  Synonyms: amercement, mulct.
verb
(past & past part. fined; pres. part. fining)
1.
Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty.  Synonym: ticket.  "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"
adverb
1.
An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence.  Synonyms: all right, alright, OK, very well.
2.
In a delicate manner.  Synonyms: delicately, exquisitely, finely.  "Her fine drawn body"



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"Fine" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasant and soothing one. All went well this day. After landing, the party proceeded westwards—as they did nightly for nearly a week. It mattered little that they did not enter a house in all that time. The weather was so fine, that a sheepfold, or a grassy nook of the moorland, served all needful purposes of a resting place ...
— The Billow and the Rock • Harriet Martineau
... a cushion, across which was stretched a parchment pattern bristling with pins, and with bobbins she was swiftly knitting a piece of gossamer lace, by throwing the fine threads ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... where he lived with Mocenigo our ambassador; he is well mannered, polite, and a fine looking young man, and that's all I ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... man smiled. He was little more than a boy, but his questioner noticed that he had a fine manly face and his eye ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... character sketch in which there is romance treated with a fine reserve. It employs the local color so characteristic of Mr. ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)


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