Usually means: Satisfactory but not exceptionally good.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fine, fine, fine, fine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fine, fine, fine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fine, fine: Wordnik
  7. fine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fine, fine: Wiktionary
  9. fine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FINE(D), fine: Dictionary.com
  13. fine (adj.), fine (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. F.I.N.E, FINE, Fine (Taeyeon song), Fine (Whitney Houston song), Fine (brandy), Fine (disambiguation), Fine (penalty), Fine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fine: Rhymezone
  19. fine, fine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fine: Free Dictionary
  22. fine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Fine, fine: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. fine: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. FINE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  7. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. fine: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Fine (law), fine: Legal dictionary
  6. fine: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FINE: Netlingo
  2. Fine (law), fine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FINE(D), FINE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. fine: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fine, fine, fine, fine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. F.I.N.E, F.I.N.E: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fine: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Fine: Coin Collecting
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Senses referring to subjective quality.
adjective:  Of superior quality.
adjective:  (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
adjective:  (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
adjective:  (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
adjective:  Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
adjective:  (obsolete) Showy; overdecorated.
adjective:  Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
adjective:  An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
adjective:  Senses referring to objective quality.
adjective:  Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
adjective:  (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
adjective:  Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
adjective:  Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
adjective:  Made of slender or thin filaments.
adjective:  Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
adjective:  (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
adjective:  (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
adverb:  Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
adverb:  Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
adverb:  (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
adverb:  (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:  Fine champagne; French brandy.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
verb:  (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
verb:  (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
verb:  To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
verb:  To change by fine gradations.
verb:  (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
noun:  A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
noun:  (obsolete) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
verb:  (intransitive) To pay a fine.
noun:  (music) The end of a musical composition.
noun:  (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
noun:  (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
noun:  (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
noun:  (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
noun:  A surname.

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