adj. & n.
--adj.
1. extremely beautiful or delicate.
2 acute; keenly felt (exquisite pleasure).
3 keen; highly sensitive or discriminating (exquisite taste).
--n. a person of refined (esp. affected) tastes.
Derivatives:
exquisitely adv. exquisiteness n.
Etymology: ME f. L exquirere exquisit- (as EX-(1), quaerere seek)