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FINESPUN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does finespun mean?
• FINESPUN (adjective)
The adjective FINESPUN has 2 senses:
1. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
2. developed in excessively fine detail
Familiarity information: FINESPUN used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
Synonyms:
delicate; finespun
Context example:
the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense
Similar:
refined ((used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Developed in excessively fine detail
Synonyms:
finespun; hairsplitting
Context example:
finespun distinctions
Similar:
precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)
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