Appetizing vs Exquisite - What's the difference?
appetizing | exquisite | Related terms |
That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.
* Sir Walter Scott
Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
; far-fetched; abstruse.
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
(rare) Fop, dandy.
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .
Appetizing is a related term of exquisite.
As adjectives the difference between appetizing and exquisite
is that appetizing is that appeals to, or stimulates the appetite while exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.As a verb appetizing
is .As a noun exquisite is
(rare) fop, dandy.appetizing
English
Alternative forms
* appetising (mostly British)Adjective
(en adjective)- ''This food looks so appetizing.
- The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
() * appetizingly * unappetizingexquisite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beautiful, delicate, discriminatingNoun
(en noun)- So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.