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Adjective: fine (finer,finest)  fIn
  1. Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
    "everything's fine"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine";
    - all right, o.k., OK, okay, hunky-dory, alright
  2. Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
    "a fine distinction"
  3. Thin in thickness or diameter
  4. Characterized by elegance, refinement or accomplishment
  5. Of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
  6. (metallurgy) free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
    "gold 21 carats fine"
Adverb: fine  fIn
  1. An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
    - very well, alright, all right, OK, all righty [non-standard]
  2. In a delicate manner
    "her fine drawn body";
    - finely, delicately, exquisitely
Noun: fine  fIn
  1. Money extracted as a penalty
    - mulct, amercement [archaic]
Verb: fine  fIn
  1. Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
    - ticket
  2. Clarify (wine and beer), e.g. by adding something to cause precipitation of unwanted impurities and sediment

Derived forms: fines, finer, fined, fining, finest

See also: close, close-grained, dustlike, elegant, fine-grained, floury, nongranular, powdered, powdery, precise, pulverised [Brit], pulverized, pure, satisfactory, small, small-grained, smooth, superfine, texture, thin, tight

Type of: book, penalty

Antonym: coarse

Encyclopedia: Fine, Steven