English Dictionary

fine

adj

Of superior quality. / (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory. / (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. / (informal) Good-looking, attractive.

The restaurant serves fine cuisine.

意味（1）

Of superior quality.

The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.

意味（2）

(ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.

You're a fine one to talk about laziness.

意味（3）

(informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.

How are you today? – Fine.

意味（4）

(informal) Good-looking, attractive.

That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.

意味（5）

Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.

In any case, Feinsilver’s nomenclatural suggestions and fine distinctions did not enjoy widespread adoption.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Showy; overdecorated.

They will permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it will, provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing

意味（7）

Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.

Thou haſt ſpoken all alreadie, vnleſſe thou canſt ſay they are married, but thou art too fine in thy euidence, therefore ſtand aſide.

意味（8）

An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.

Do you want to talk about what happened? – [sharply, with annoyance or discomfort] I'm fine!

意味（9）

Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.

The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.

意味（10）

(of weather) Sunny and not raining.

If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.

意味（11）

Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.

And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.

意味（12）

Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.

The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.

意味（13）

Made of slender or thin filaments.

They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.

意味（14）

Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.

Coins nine tenths fine.

意味（15）

(cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.

[…]to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four[…]

意味（16）

(obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.

The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser.