Exquisite vs Severe - What's the difference?
exquisite | severe |
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 .
Very bad or intense.
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Strict or harsh.
Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
As adjectives the difference between exquisite and severe
is that exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional while severe is very bad or intense.As a noun exquisite
is fop, dandy.exquisite
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.
severe
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}