(fīn) adjective fin·er, fin·est
1. Excellent in quality; admirable; superior.
2. Suggesting lightness; light or delicate; not coarse, gross, or dull; subtle; thin; keen.
3. Showy in appearance or style; pretentious; ostentatious.
4. Delicate of perception; refined; sensitive; nice.
5. Refined, as sirup.
6. Having a high or specified degree of purity, as gold or silver.
7. Distinguished or noteworthy.
8. Enjoyable; pleasant.
9. Trained to the highest point of efficiency: said of an athlete, a horse, etc.
10. Cloudless; rainless.
—adverb
1. Colloq. Very much; finely; well; excellently.
2. In billiards, in a manner producing a fine carom, etc.
—v.t. & v.i. fined, fin·ing To make or become purified, thin, or slender. [<OF fin perfected <LL finus, a back formation <L finire complete <finis end]
—fine′ly adverb Synonyms (adj.): beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, nice, polished, pure, refined, sensitive, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin. Fine denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished, consummated. From this root–sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning. If it is a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen and sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL, EXCELLENT, MINUTE, TASTEFUL. Antonyms: big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick.

(fīn) noun
1. A pecuniary penalty; the money so required, or anything forfeited as a penalty.
2. In English law, an amicable adjustment of a suit either actual or fictitious; a final agreement as for the possession of lands.
3. Obs. End; conclusion; death.
—in fine Finally.
—v.t. fined, fin·ing To punish by fine; exact a fine from. [<OF fin settlement <L finis end]

(fēn) noun French
A drink of brandy, especially one served with meals.

(fē′nā) noun Music
A mark denoting the end; finis. [<Ital.]