Fine

Adjective

 * 1) Of superior quality.
 * 2) * The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.
 * 3) * Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
 * 4) Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
 * 5) * The small scratch meant that his copy of X-Men #2 was merely fine when it otherwise would have been near mint.
 * 6)  Sunny and not raining.
 * 7) (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
 * 8) * "How are you today?" "Fine."
 * 9) * "Will this one do? It's got a dent in it" "Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess."
 * 10) * "It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three."
 * 11) (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
 * 12) * "That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation."
 * 13) Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
 * 14) * Grind it into a fine powder.
 * 15) * When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
 * 16) Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
 * 17) * The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
 * 18) Made of slender or thin filaments.
 * 19) * They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
 * 20) Subtle, delicately balanced.
 * 21) * The fine distinction between lender of last resort and a bail-out ... (The Independent).
 * 22)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 23) *  ... to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four ...

Adverb

 * 1) expression of agreement

Noun

 * 1) Fine champagne; French brandy.
 * 2) * 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 18:
 * He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.
 * 1) plural something that is fine; fine particles
 * 2) * They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
 * 3) A payment or fee issued as punishment for breaking the law.
 * 4) * The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
 * 5)  The end of a musical composition.
 * 6)  The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.

Verb

 * 1)  to make finer, purer, or cleaner
 * 2)  to become finer, purer, or cleaner
 * 3)  to clarify (wine and beer) by filtration
 * 4)  To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
 * 5) * She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.

Verbs for Fine
anticipate—; agree upon—; condemn to—; evade—; exact—; execute—; exempt from —; impose—; incur—; lament—; levy—; obtain—; pass—on; pronounce—; remit—; settle—; subject to—; suffer—; —compensates; —punishes; —reduces; —releases; — restrains.

Adverbs for Fine
heavily; unscrupulously; punitively; legally; unethically; maliciously; cruelly; sternly.

Synonyms for Fine
adjective
 * good, excellent
 * (informal) (being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory): all right, ok, o.k., okay, hunky-dory, kosher
 * fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained
 * fine-threaded
 * beautiful, attractive, choice, dainty, showy, rare, excellent, delicate, polished, good, courteous, refined, slender, minute, thin, admirable, nice, keen, suitable, exquisite, clarified, sharp, clear, smooth, small, ground, elegant, handsome, subtle, pure, sensitive, slight, tenuous, splendid.

verb
 * (to make or become finer, purer, or cleaner): clarify, refine, purify

adverb
 * all right, alright, OK, very well

noun
 * penalty, forfeiture, forfeit, confiscation, sequestration, damage, amercement, cost, mulct, charge, loss, punishment, filing.

Antonyms for Fine
adjective
 * coarse
 * coarse
 * improper, clumsy, heavy, rude, thick, stout, awkward, blunt, rough, gross, indelicate, unrefined, vulgar, immodest, uncouth, brutish, bluff, indecorous, impolite, unbecoming, ignorant, churlish, surly, illiterate, rustic, insolent, impertinent, saucy, unpolished

noun
 * reward, remuneration, recompense, indemnity, satisfaction, compensation, reimbursement, amends, requital

Derived terms

 * da capo al fine=D.C. al fine

Related terms

 * finings

Thesaurus
Babylonian, Corinthian, OK, Roger, absolutely, abstruse, accomplished, accurate, acrid, acute, admirable, adulterated, advantageous, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agreeable, airy, alive and kicking, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, amerce, amercement, amiable, amicable, amusing, appreciative, arabesque, aright, as you say, assessment, assuredly, attentive, attenuate, attenuated, attractive, auspicious, awe-inspiring, awful, aye, balmy, barbaric, baroque, beauteous, beautiful, beneficial, benevolent, bitsy, bitty, blissful, bon, bonny, bonzer, boyish, branny, braw, bright, bright and fair, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brilliant, bueno, busy, by all means, capital, capitally, certainly, chalklike, chalky, champion, charge, cheerful, chichi, chipper, choice, civilized, clear, close, cloudless, cogent, comely, commendable, comminute, comminuted, compatible, complaisant, confiscate, congenial, conscientious, constant, consummate, cool, cordial, correct, critical, crushed, cryptic, cultivated, cultured, cut, cute, cutting, da, dainty, damages, dandy, delicat, delicate, deluxe, demanding, desirable, detailed, detrital, detrited, diaphanous, differential, dilute, diluted, direct, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, disintegrated, distinctive, distinguishing, distrain, distraint, distress, double-edged, downy, dry, dulcet, dusty, edged, efflorescent, elaborate, elegant, en rapport, endowed with beauty, enigmatic, enjoyable, enjoying health, entertaining, escheat, escheatment, esoteric, estimable, estreat, ethereal, eupeptic, even, exact, exacting, exactly, excellent, excellently, exceptional, exigent, expedient, express, exquisite, extravagant, eye-filling, fair, fair and pleasant, faithful, famous, famously, fancy, farinaceous, fastidious, favorable, featheredged, fee, felicific, felicitous, filamentous, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finely, finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, first-class, first-rate, firsts, fit, fit and fine, flaky, flamboyant, flimsy, florid, floury, flowerlike, flowery, fluffy, forfeit, forfeiture, frail, frilly, full of beans, furfuraceous, fussy, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, genial, girlish, glorious, gone to dust, good, good enough, good-looking, goodly, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, gracious, grand, grandiose, grated, grateful, gratifying, great, ground, hair-splitting, hairline, hairsplitting, handsome, harmonious, healthful, healthy, hear, heart-warming, heavy, helpful, high-grade, high-wrought, honeyed, impalpable, imposing, impressive, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, indeed, indeedy, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, insubstantial, interesting, itsy-bitsy, ja, just so, keen, keen-edged, kind, knifelike, labored, lacy, laudable, levigated, levy, levy a distress, light, likable, loose, lovely, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, mais oui, majestic, masterly, mathematical, mealy, mellifluous, mellow, meritorious, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, milled, minute, misty, moresque, most assuredly, mulct, narrow, naturally, naturellement, neat, nice, nicely, noble, obscure, of course, okay, ornate, ostentatious, oui, outstanding, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, palatial, papery, particular, peachy, peewee, penalize, penalty, pestled, petty, picturesque, pinpoint, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, plush, pointed, polished, porous, posh, positively, powdered, powdery, precise, precisely, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretty, pretty-pretty, prime, princely, profitable, proud, pubescent, pulchritudinous, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, punctilious, punctual, punishment, quality, quite, rainless, rare, rarefied, rather, razor-edged, really, recondite, reduced to powder, refined, regal, religious, religiously exact, reparation, rewarding, rich, right, righto, rigid, rigorous, ripping, ritzy, robust, rococo, royal, royally, satin, satiny, satisfactory, satisfying, scaly, scientific, scientifically exact, scobicular, scobiform, sconce, scrupulous, scrutinizing, scurfy, seemly, select, selective, sensitive, sequestrate, set, severe, sharded, sharp, sheer, shredded, silky, skillful, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smooth, sophisticated, sound, splendacious, splendid, splendidly, splendiferous, square, stately, strict, striking, subtile, subtle, sumptuous, sunny, superb, superfancy, superfine, superior, supreme, sure, sure thing, surely, svelte, swank, swanky, sweet, swell, sylphlike, tactful, tax, teeny, teeny-weeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tiny, to be sure, top-drawer, trifling, triturated, truly, two-edged, uncompact, uncompressed, undarkened, undeviating, unerring, unsubstantial, useful, vague, valid, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, very good, very well, virtuoso, virtuous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wee, welcome, well, well and good, well-made, why yes, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, worthy, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

Etymology 1
From fin: <  fin:, probably <  finitus:, past participle of finere: < finis:.

Etymology 2
fin:, from finis:

Etymology 3
From fine ("end").

Adjective

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 * German: feinstes
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: flott


 * Russian:, , ,
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 * Swedish: fin, framstående, härlig, präktig, skicklig, utmärkt, utsökt


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 * American Sign Language:
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 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Finnish:
 * German: gut, akzeptable, passabel, genügend


 * Indonesian:
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 * Scots:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: grann, prydlig, stilig, ståtlig, vacker


 * Armenian:
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 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ورد


 * Norwegian:
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 * Swedish: fin, finkornig
 * Welsh:


 * Chamicuro:
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 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: fin, liten, nätt, smal, späd


 * German:
 * Irish:
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 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: fin, fintrådig


 * : bueno, fino

Adverb

 * Norwegian: ,
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 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * Swahili:


 * Telugu: అపరాధము


 * Swahili:


 * Telugu: అపరాధము


 * German:, ,


 * Swahili:


 * : förfina, klara, raffinera, rena

Derived terms

 * chance'd be a fine thing
 * cut it fine
 * fine art
 * fine as frog hair
 * fine feathers make fine birds
 * fine-grained
 * fine leg
 * fine line
 * finely


 * fineness
 * fine print
 * fine-structure constant
 * fine-tooth comb
 * fine-tune
 * fine words butter no parsnips
 * I'm fine, thank you
 * just fine
 * to a fine fare-thee-well

Related terms

 * final
 * finite

Noun

 * Basque: isun
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified:
 * 罚金 (fájīn) (criminal fine in Mainland China, also any fine in Singapore)
 * 罚款 (fákuǎn) (administrative fine in Mainland China, also any fine in Singapore)
 * Traditional:
 * 罰金 (fájīn)
 * 罰款 (fákuǎn)
 * 罰鍰 (fáhuán)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * 罰金(ばっきん)
 * 反則金
 * Korean: 벌금 (罰金, beolgeum)
 * Lithuanian: bauda
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: amendă
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: קנס

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: mit einer Geldstrafe belegen
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian: bøtelegge, ilegge bot
 * Portuguese: multar
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Related terms

 * finance

Anagrams

 * Enif
 * ifen
 * nief

Adverb

 * 1) finally, at last
 * 2) in the final analysis, when all's said and done

Adverb

 * 1) finally

Etymology
From fine: <  < ; compare Old English wine:.

Noun

 * 1) family group

Etymology
From finis:.

Adjective

 * 1) thin
 * 2) fine
 * 3) refined

Synonyms

 * sottile
 * elegante

Adjective
fine


 * 1) Feminine plural form of fino

Noun

 * 1) end

Synonyms

 * conclusione
 * finale

Antonyms

 * inizio
 * principio

Noun

 * 1) aim, purpose, end
 * il fine giustifica i mezzi - the ends justifies the means

Synonyms

 * scopo
 * obiettivo

Related terms

 * alla fine
 * alla fin fine
 * al fine di
 * in fin dei conti
 * finale
 * finezza
 * finire
 * fino
 * alla fine
 * fine settimana
 * infine
 * senza fine

Anagrams

 * feni

Etymology
From faigen: <  vagina:.

Noun

 * 1) quiver
 * 2) sheath, scabbard
 * 3) vagina

Adjective
fine


 * 1) Plural of.