Get the answer to the NYT Spelling Bee clue “Not coarse”, starting with the letters fi.
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adjective
- All right
"that's fine with me"
- Well or healthy not sick or injured
"feel fine"
- Superior in kind, quality, or appearance excellent
"a fine job"
- Physically trained or hardened close to the limit of efficiency
- Delicate, subtle, or sensitive in quality, perception, or discrimination
"a fine distinction"
- Ornate
"fine writing"
- Marked by or affecting elegance or refinement
"fine manners"
- Used as an intensive
- Free from impurity
- Having a stated proportion of pure metal in the composition expressed in parts per thousand
"a gold coin .9166 fine"
adverb
- Very well
- All right
- With a very narrow margin of time or space
"she had not intended to cut her escape so fine"
noun
- A sum imposed as punishment for an offense
"The motorist had to pay a fine for speeding."
- A forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action
- A compromise of a fictitious suit used as a form of conveyance of lands
- End, conclusion
verb
- To impose a fine on punish by a fine
verb
- Purify, clarify
"fine and filter wine"
- To make finer in quality or size
- To become pure or clear
"the ale will fine"
- To become smaller in lines or proportions
noun
- End
noun
- Art (such as painting, sculpture, or music) concerned primarily with the creation of beautiful objects
- Objects of fine art
- An activity requiring a fine skill
noun
- Something thoroughly and often deliberately obscure
noun
- Microscopic structure of a biological entity or one of its parts especially as studied in preparations for the electron microscope
noun
- A comb with close-set teeth used especially for clearing parasites or foreign matter from the hair
- An attitude or system of thorough searching or scrutinizing
"went over the report with a fine-tooth comb"
This clue was used on March 18, 2025.
This clue has been used several times with the same answer. It also appeared on these dates:
January 17, 2025