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Is fine a Scrabble word?

Yes, fine is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of fine?

Definition

adj (English)

1. Senses referring to subjective quality.Examples: "You're a fine one to talk about laziness."; "Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into."; "A fine romance, with no kisses, A fine romance, my friend, this is; We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes, But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes."Synonyms: hell of aironic

2. Senses referring to subjective quality.Examples: "How are you today? – Fine."; "Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess."; "It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three."Synonyms: all right, ok, o.k., okay, hunky-dory, kosherinformal

3. Senses referring to subjective quality.Examples: "That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation."; "It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers."; "He's so fine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang) / Wish he were mine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang) / That handsome boy over there (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang) / The one with the wavy hair (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)"informal

4. Senses referring to subjective quality.Examples: "1853, Matthew Arnold, Preface to The Poems of Matthew Arnold They will permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it will, provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing"obsolete

5. Senses referring to objective quality.Examples: "If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough."

6. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.Examples: "[…]to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four[…]"

adv (English)

1. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.colloquialdateddialectal

2. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.

noun (English)

1. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.Examples: "They filtered silt and fines out of the soil."plural-normally

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.Examples: "to fine gold"; "1666 (written), 1681 (published), Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England It hath been fined and refined by […] learned men."transitive

2. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.Synonyms: clarify, refine, purifyintransitive

3. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.transitive

4. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).Examples: "I watched her [the ship] […] gradually fining down in the westward until I lost sight of her hull."datedintransitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.obsolete

2. (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.Examples: "Fine if you've…"

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).Examples: "She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed."transitive

2. (intransitive) To pay a fine.Examples: "Men fined for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women fined for leave to marry."intransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "fine"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "fine"?

Scrabble
7 points
F4
I1
N1
E1
Words With Friends
8 points
F4
I1
N2
E1

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