EXQUISITELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exquisitely mean? 

• EXQUISITELY (adverb)
  The adverb EXQUISITELY has 1 sense:

1. in a delicate manner

  Familiarity information: EXQUISITELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXQUISITELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a delicate manner

Synonyms:

delicately; exquisitely; fine; finely

Context example:

her fine drawn body

Pertainym:

exquisite (delicately beautiful)

 Context examples 

She was, she felt she was, in the greatest danger of being exquisitely happy, while so many were miserable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At the sight that met my eyes, my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The reason I love this full moon is because your ruler, Neptune, and Saturn will both be exquisitely oriented toward this full moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“How exquisitely polite!” exclaimed Miss Murdstone, rising.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A pretty little house stood at the top of the lane, with a garden before it, exquisitely neat and brilliantly blooming.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Although addiction is a brain disease, this discovery underscores how the body’s complex functions are exquisitely interconnected, revealing the need for integrated and innovative research.”

(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)

She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To do this work, scientists will need training to operate an array of new equipment that can measure and guide such exquisitely controlled materials.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

This is the first time that optical interferometry has been used to reveal details of an exoplanet, and the new technique furnished an exquisitely detailed spectrum of unprecedented quality — ten times more detailed than earlier observations.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

There they returned again into the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each other's character, truth, and attachment; more equal to act, more justified in acting.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)