Synonyms for finely
ˈfaɪn lifine·ly

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1. finelyadverb

   in tiny pieces

   "the surfaces were finely granular"

   Synonyms:
   delicately, fine, exquisitely

   Antonyms:
   coarsely

2. finelyadverb

   in an elegant manner

   "finely costumed actors"

   Synonyms:
   delicately, fine, exquisitely

   Antonyms:
   coarsely

3. finely, fine, delicately, exquisitelyadverb

   in a delicate manner

   "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"

   Synonyms:
   delicately, fine, all right, exquisitely, very well, alright

   Antonyms:
   coarsely

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1. List of paraphrases for "finely":

   minutely, exquisitely, subtly

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1. Albert Einstein:

   ...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

2. Alcaeus:

   Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

3. Charles Dickens:

   In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

4. Niall Mackay:

   It demonstrates just how finely-balanced the outcomes of some of the biggest moments of history were, even when we use the actual days events of the battle, make a small change of timing or emphasis to the arrangement of those days and things might have turned out very differently.

5. Hunter S. Thompson:

   There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.