Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Drawn to a fine thread; minute; hence, over-refined; over-elaborated; subtile: as, fine-spun theories.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
- adj. developed in excessively fine detail
Examples
“A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path.”
“Marquis Conrade, thy wit begins to halt; I will trust thy finespun measures no longer, but will try my own.”
“The icy floral space is delicate and finespun like the most exquisite snowflake, and includes winter trees by Julia Hathor , owner and creator of the four sim Creative Fantasy Home & Garden teleport directly from here.”
“They didn't take, for as Mr. Stewart asks: "What man with a beard could say such finespun silken terms without cursing afterwards to clear his mouth?”
“Darling Death shouted in his ear, his ear made to record the least, the most finespun of worm-cries and dragonfly-jubilations" -- Levertov”
“He was dressed for the festival in a finespun linen shirt and woolen hose and a vest still decorated with a wilted flower.”
“Meanwhile the four women were stripping Regapisk of his travel-worn clothing and draping him in finespun, marvelously decorated kilts and robes.”
“Her wellturned ankle displayed its perfect proportions beneath her skirt and just the proper amount and no more of her shapely limbs encased in finespun hose with highspliced heels and wide garter tops.”
“The whole street had gone drab and hushed and indistinct around their large, quiet and flushed figures, the finespun light of their garments stirring about them as if the celestial fabric were subject to the invisible currents of the air which men cannot feel.”
“Though finespun dreams had lulled the very soul, Our peace of mind was shattered: Beyond the palings, Europe's children hold aloft Their begging-bowl.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘finespun’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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Lyrical Listing
Words I find personally pleasing either in letter arrangement, sound, or meaning.
dulcet, seraphic, opalescent, abattoir, nonpareil, love-philtre, cervine, dalliance, skylark, svelte, palindrome, evenfall and 54 more...
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lark
diogenes, aggressively apat..., la noche oscura d..., moguicheng, dewetted, felicious, sandblind, mammon, cleft, perspicacity, bombinate, autochthonous and 35 more...
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