Fine

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fine, a. [F. fin, LL. finus fine, pure, fr. L. finire to finish; cf. finitus, p. p., finished, completed (hence the sense accomplished, perfect.) See Finish, and cf. Finite.].

•  Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.  [1913 Webster]

  "The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold."  [1913 Webster]

  "A cup of wine that's brisk and fine."  [1913 Webster]

  "Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars."  [1913 Webster]

  "To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]."  [1913 Webster]
•  Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.  [1913 Webster]

  "He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing."  [1913 Webster]
•  Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.  [1913 Webster]

  "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!"  [1913 Webster]

  "The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery."  [1913 Webster]

  "He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not coarse, gross, or heavy  [1913 Webster]

  "The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser."
•  Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.  [1913 Webster]
•  (Used ironically.)  [1913 Webster]

  " Fine is often compounded with participles and adjectives, modifying them adverbially; a, fine-drawn, fine-featured, fine-grained, fine-spoken, fine-spun, etc."  [1913 Webster]

  "Ye have made a fine hand, fellows."  [1913 Webster]

Fine arch (Glass Making), the smaller fritting furnace of a glasshouse. Knight. -- Fine arts. See the Note under Art. -- Fine cut, fine cut tobacco; a kind of chewing tobacco cut up into shreds. -- Fine goods, woven fabrics of fine texture and quality. McElrath. -- Fine stuff, lime, or a mixture of lime, plaster, etc., used as material for the finishing coat in plastering. -- To sail fine (Naut.), to sail as close to the wind as possible.

Syn. -- Fine, Beautiful.

Fine, v. t. [From Fine, a.].

•  To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.  [1913 Webster]

  "It hath been fined and refined by . . . learned men."  [1913 Webster]
•  To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.  L. H. Bailey.  [1913 Webster]
•  To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.  [1913 Webster]

  "I often sate at home
  On evenings, watching how they fined themselves
  With gradual conscience to a perfect night."  [1913 Webster]

Fine, n. [OE. fin, L. finis end, also in LL., a final agreement or concord between the lord and his vassal; a sum of money paid at the end, so as to make an end of a transaction, suit, or prosecution; mulct; penalty; cf. OF. fin end, settlement, F. fin end. See Finish, and cf. Finance.].

•  End; conclusion; termination; extinction.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

  "Is this the fine of his fines?"  [1913 Webster]
•  A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.  [1913 Webster]
•  A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.  Spelman.

Fine for alienation (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. Burrill. -- Fine of lands, a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. Burrill. See Concord, n., 4. -- In fine, in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up.

Fine, v. t. [From Fine, n.].

 To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.  [1913 Webster]

Fine, v. i. 

 To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).  [1913 Webster]
"Men fined for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women fined for leave to marry."  [1913 Webster]

Fine, v. t. & i. [OF. finer, F. finir. See Finish, v. t.].

 To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.  [1913 Webster]

Fine, adv. 

•  Finely; well; elegantly; fully; delicately; mincingly.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Fine, v. i. 

 To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.
"I watched her [the ship] . . . gradually fining down in the westward until I lost of her hull."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Fine, adj., n., adv., & v.
--adj.
1 of high quality.
2 a excellent; of notable merit (a fine painting). b good, satisfactory (that will be fine). c fortunate (has been a fine thing for him). d well conceived or expressed (a fine saying).
3 a pure, refined. b (of gold or silver) containing a specified proportion of pure metal.
4 of handsome appearance or size; imposing, dignified (fine buildings; a person of fine presence).
5 in good health (I'm fine, thank you).
6 (of weather etc.) bright and clear with sunshine; free from rain.
7 a thin; sharp. b in small particles. c worked in slender thread. d (esp. of print) small. e (of a pen) narrow-pointed.
8 Cricket behind the wicket and near the line of flight of the ball.
9 tritely complimentary; euphemistic (say fine things about a person; call things by fine names).
10 ornate, showy, smart.
11 fastidious, dainty, pretending refinement; (of speech or writing) affectedly ornate.
12 a capable of delicate perception or discrimination. b perceptible only with difficulty (a fine distinction).
13 a delicate, subtle, exquisitely fashioned. b (of feelings) refined, elevated.
14 (of wine or other goods) of a high standard; conforming to a specified grade.
--n.
1 fine weather (in rain or fine).
2 (in pl.) very small particles in mining, milling, etc.
--adv.
1 finely.
2 colloq. very well (suits me fine).
--v.
1 (often foll. by down) a tr. make (beer or wine) clear. b intr. (of liquid) become clear.
2 tr. & intr. (often foll. by away, down, off) make or become finer, thinner, or less coarse; dwindle or taper, or cause to do so.

Idiom

cut (or run) it fine allow very little margin of time etc. fine arts those appealing to the mind or to the sense of beauty, as poetry, music, and esp. painting, sculpture, and architecture. fine chemicals see CHEMICAL. fine-draw sew together (two pieces of cloth, edges of a tear, parts of a garment) so that the join is imperceptible. fine-drawn
1 extremely thin.
2 subtle. fine print detailed printed information, esp. in legal documents, instructions, etc.
fine-spun
1 delicate.
2 (of a theory etc.) too subtle, unpractical. fine-tooth comb a comb with narrow close-set teeth. fine-tune make small adjustments to (a mechanism etc.) in order to obtain the best possible results. fine up Austral. colloq. (of the weather) become fine. go over with a fine-tooth comb check or search thoroughly. not to put too fine a point on it (as a parenthetic remark) to speak bluntly.

Derivative

finely adv. fineness n.

Fine, n. & v.
--n.
1 a sum of money exacted as a penalty.
2 hist. a sum of money paid by an incoming tenant in return for the rent's being small.
--v.tr. punish by a fine (fined him {pound}5).

Idiom

in fine to sum up; in short.

Derivative

finable adj.

Fine, n. = FINE CHAMPAGNE.

Etymology

abbr.

THESAURUS

Fine

Babylonian, Corinthian, OK, Roger, absolutely, abstruse, accomplished, accurate, acrid, acute, admirable, adulterated, advantageous, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agreeable, airy, alive and kicking, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, amerce, amercement, amiable, amicable, amusing, appreciative, arabesque, aright, as you say, assessment, assuredly, attentive, attenuate, attenuated, attractive, auspicious, awe-inspiring, awful, aye, balmy, barbaric, baroque, beauteous, beautiful, beneficial, benevolent, bitsy, bitty, blissful, bon, bonny, bonzer, boyish, branny, braw, bright, bright and fair, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brilliant, bueno, busy, by all means, capital, capitally, certainly, chalklike, chalky, champion, charge, cheerful, chichi, chipper, choice, civilized, clear, close, cloudless, cogent, comely, commendable, comminute, comminuted, compatible, complaisant, confiscate, congenial, conscientious, constant, consummate, cool, cordial, correct, critical, crushed, cryptic, cultivated, cultured, cut, cute, cutting, da, dainty, damages, dandy, delicat, delicate, deluxe, demanding, desirable, detailed, detrital, detrited, diaphanous, differential, dilute, diluted, direct, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, disintegrated, distinctive, distinguishing, distrain, distraint, distress, double-edged, downy, dry, dulcet, dusty, edged, efflorescent, elaborate, elegant, en rapport, endowed with beauty, enigmatic, enjoyable, enjoying health, entertaining, escheat, escheatment, esoteric, estimable, estreat, ethereal, eupeptic, even, exact, exacting, exactly, excellent, excellently, exceptional, exigent, expedient, express, exquisite, extravagant, eye-filling, fair, fair and pleasant, faithful, famous, famously, fancy, farinaceous, fastidious, favorable, featheredged, fee, felicific, felicitous, filamentous, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finely, finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, first-class, first-rate, firsts, fit, fit and fine, flaky, flamboyant, flimsy, florid, floury, flowerlike, flowery, fluffy, forfeit, forfeiture, frail, frilly, full of beans, furfuraceous, fussy, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, genial, girlish, glorious, gone to dust, good, good enough, good-looking, goodly, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, gracious, grand, grandiose, grated, grateful, gratifying, great, ground, hair-splitting, hairline, hairsplitting, handsome, harmonious, healthful, healthy, hear, heart-warming, heavy, helpful, high-grade, high-wrought, honeyed, impalpable, imposing, impressive, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, indeed, indeedy, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, insubstantial, interesting, itsy-bitsy, ja, just so, keen, keen-edged, kind, knifelike, labored, lacy, laudable, levigated, levy, levy a distress, light, likable, loose, lovely, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, mais oui, majestic, masterly, mathematical, mealy, mellifluous, mellow, meritorious, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, milled, minute, misty, moresque, most assuredly, mulct, narrow, naturally, naturellement, neat, nice, nicely, noble, obscure, of course, okay, ornate, ostentatious, oui, outstanding, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, palatial, papery, particular, peachy, peewee, penalize, penalty, pestled, petty, picturesque, pinpoint, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, plush, pointed, polished, porous, posh, positively, powdered, powdery, precise, precisely, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretty, pretty-pretty, prime, princely, profitable, proud, pubescent, pulchritudinous, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, punctilious, punctual, punishment, quality, quite, rainless, rare, rarefied, rather, razor-edged, really, recondite, reduced to powder, refined, regal, religious, religiously exact, reparation, rewarding, rich, right, righto, rigid, rigorous, ripping, ritzy, robust, rococo, royal, royally, satin, satiny, satisfactory, satisfying, scaly, scientific, scientifically exact, scobicular, scobiform, sconce, scrupulous, scrutinizing, scurfy, seemly, select, selective, sensitive, sequestrate, set, severe, sharded, sharp, sheer, shredded, silky, skillful, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smooth, sophisticated, sound, splendacious, splendid, splendidly, splendiferous, square, stately, strict, striking, subtile, subtle, sumptuous, sunny, superb, superfancy, superfine, superior, supreme, sure, sure thing, surely, svelte, swank, swanky, sweet, swell, sylphlike, tactful, tax, teeny, teeny-weeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tiny, to be sure, top-drawer, trifling, triturated, truly, two-edged, uncompact, uncompressed, undarkened, undeviating, unerring, unsubstantial, useful, vague, valid, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, very good, very well, virtuoso, virtuous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wee, welcome, well, well and good, well-made, why yes, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, worthy, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

ROGET THESAURUS

Fine

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Penalty

N penalty, retribution, pain, pains and penalties, weregild, wergild, peine forte et dure, penance, the devil to pay, fine, mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, escheat, damages, deodand, sequestration, confiscation, premunire, doomage.

VB fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate, sequestrate, sequester, escheat, estreat, forfeit.

Beauty

N beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal, aesthetics, callaesthetics, pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty, symmetry, comeliness, fairness, polish, gloss, good effect, good looks, belle tournure, trigness, bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence, sublimity, sublimification, concinnity, delicacy, refinement, charm, je ne sais quoi, style, Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus, peacock, butterfly, garden, flower of, pink of, bijou, jewel, work of art, flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower, rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower, pleasurableness, beautifying, landscaping, landscape gardening, decoration, calisthenics, beauty, hunk (of men), beautiful, beauteous, handsome, gorgeous, pretty, lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing, attractive, delicate, dainty, refined, fair, personable, comely, seemly, bonny, good-looking, well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned, proper, shapely, symmetrical, harmonious, sightly, fit to be seen, passable, not amiss, goodly, dapper, tight, jimp, gimp, janty, jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy, bright, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked, rosy, ruddy, blooming, in full bloom, brilliant, shining, beamy, beaming, sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing, glossy, sleek, rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious, artistic, artistical, aesthetic, picturesque, pictorial, fait a peindre, well-composed, well grouped, well varied, curious, enchanting becoming, ornamental, undeformed, undefaced, unspotted, spotless, auxilium non leve vultus habet, beauty born of murmuring sound, flowers preach to us if we will hear, gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus, none but the brave deserve the fair, thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty.

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

Thinness

N narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.

Pride

N pride, dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady, dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty- minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur, with head erect, odi profanum vulgus et arceo, a duke's revenues on her back, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon, pride in their port, defiance in their eye.

Rarity

N rarity, tenuity, absence of solidity, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, sponginess, compressibility, rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization, vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification, ether, rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight, light, cavernous, spongy, rarefied, unsubstantial, uncompact, incompressed, rarefiable.

Texture

N texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.

Dryness

N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.

Truth

N truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy, rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.