<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.</li><li>Synonyms: select, perfect, consummate, finished</li><li>Antonyms: inferior</li><li>Choice, excellent, or admirable: a fine painting.</li><li>Satisfactory or acceptable; okay: The story is fine for a class assignment but not good enough to publish in the school paper.</li><li>Consisting of minute particles: fine sand; a fine purée.</li><li>Very thin or slender: fine thread.</li><li>Keen or sharp, as a tool: Is the knife fine enough to carve well?</li><li>Synonyms: acute</li><li>Delicate in texture; filmy: fine cotton fabric.</li><li>Delicately fashioned: fine tracery.</li><li>Highly skilled or accomplished: a fine musician.</li><li>Trained to the maximum degree, as an athlete.</li><li>Characterized by or affecting refinement or elegance: a fine lady.</li><li>Polished or refined: fine manners.</li><li>Affectedly ornate or elegant: A style so fine repels the average reader.</li><li>Delicate or subtle: a fine distinction.</li><li>Bright and clear: a fine day; fine skin.</li><li>Healthy; well: In spite of his recent illness, he looks fine.</li><li>Showy or smart; elegant in appearance: a bird of fine plumage.</li><li>Good-looking or handsome: a fine young man.</li><li>(Of a precious metal or its alloy) free from impurities or containing a large amount of pure metal: fine gold; Sterling silver is 92.5 percent fine.</li><li>(Used ironically or as an intensifier) terrible or unacceptable: Not inviting me—that’s a fine way to treat a friend! It’s a fine mess you’ve got us into!</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Informal. In an excellent manner; very well: She's now free of pain and can walk just fine.</li><li>Informal. Satisfactorily; acceptably: I did fine but not great on my final exams.</li><li>Very small: She writes so fine I can hardly read it.</li><li>Billiards, Pool. In such a way that the driven ball barely touches the object ball in passing.</li><li>Nautical. As efficiently close as possible into the wind, just short of pinching: sailing fine.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>Fined, fining. To become fine or finer, as by refining.</li><li>To become less, as in size or proportions; reduce; diminish (often followed by down): The plumpness fines down with exercise.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>Fined, fining. To make fine or finer, especially by refining or pulverizing.</li><li>To reduce the size or proportions of (often used with down or away): to fine down the heavy features; to fine away superfluous matter in a design.</li><li>To clarify (wines or spirits) by filtration.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Fines, Mining. Crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen.</li></ul>