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 [informal], cool [informal], alright, jake [N. Amer, Austral, NZ, informal]
    
2. Characterized by elegance, refinement or accomplishment
   "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"
    
3. Of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
   "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"
    
4. Thin in thickness or diameter
   "read the fine print"; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"
    
5. Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
   "a fine distinction"
    
6. (metallurgy) free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
   "gold 21 carats fine"

1. An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
   "fine, let's get started on the task";
   - very well, alright, all right, OK, all righty [non-standard], righty-ho [Brit, informal]
    
2. In a delicate manner
   "her fine drawn body";
   - finely, delicately, exquisitely

1. Money extracted as a penalty
   "The court imposed a fine for the minor offence";
   - mulct, amercement [archaic]

1. Impose a fine on
   "he was fined for littering";
   - mulct
    
2. Record a fine as a penalty in a police record
   "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street";
   - ticket
    
3. Clarify (wine and beer), e.g. by adding something to cause precipitation of unwanted impurities and sediment
   "The winemaker fined the wine using egg whites to remove excess tannins"

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

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, impose, levy, penalty

Antonym: coarse

Encyclopedia: Fine, New York