🇬🇧🇨🇳 exquisite - 精美的 : English Lesson

Meaning of "exquisite" ("精美的"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Exquisite means extremely beautiful, elegant, or finely detailed. It describes something that is crafted with great skill and care, often evoking admiration and delight due to its exceptional quality or beauty. Exquisite can also refer to something that is intensely felt or experienced.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Grandma’s cookies are so exquisite that even the cookie jar refuses to let them go.

My dog thinks the trash has an exquisite smell, but I strongly disagree.

I created an exquisite sandwich, but before I could eat it, my brother did.

My little sister calls mud pies exquisite… and that’s why we don’t let her cook.

The dog believed its muddy paw prints were an exquisite addition to the clean floor.

She found an exquisite shell on the wet sand. Its exquisite curve caught the sun; an exquisite pink line ran like a ribbon. She held the exquisite thing to her ear and heard the sea, exquisite and small. She ran home, heart bright, and placed the shell on the windowsill, smiling at the exquisite light.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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