Exquisite vs Squeamish - What's the difference?

Exquisite is a related term of squeamish.

As adjectives the difference between exquisite and squeamish

is that exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional while squeamish is easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous.

As a noun exquisite

is (rare) fop, dandy.

exquisite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

*: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.

Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

Synonyms

* beautiful, delicate, discriminating

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) Fop, dandy.

* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.

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.

*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .

squeamish

English

Alternative forms

* sweamish, swaimish (dialectal) * squeimish, squemish, squeamous (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous

He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish about the sight of blood.