PRECIEUSE Synonyms

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• something considered choice to eat

• delicately beautiful

• especially pleasing to the taste

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

• marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique

• easily broken or damaged or destroyed

• easily hurt

• developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

• of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

• refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

• intense or sharp

• lavishly elegant and refined

• delicately beautiful

• of extreme beauty

• being or in accordance with current social fashions

• having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

• popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time

• characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• pretentiously elegant

• perfected or made shiny and smooth

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

• (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

• elegant and fashionable

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

• being or in accordance with current social fashions