fine
Forms
- Comparative
- finer
- Superlative
- finest
- Comparative
- more fine
- Superlative
- most fine
Definitions
1.Senses referring to subjective quality.
- You're a fine one to talk about laziness.
- The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
- Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into.
2.Senses referring to objective quality.
- When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
- They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
- The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
3.Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Tom and I are going to be fine.
- Tom and I are doing fine.
- I'm going to be fine.
1.Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
2.Finely; elegantly; delicately.(colloquial)
3.In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
1.Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
2.Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #509
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of fine or thin also arising in many Romance languages (compare Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish fino).