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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety;
- Example: "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
[syn: finespun, delicate]

2. developed in excessively fine detail;
- Example: "finespun distinctions"
[syn: finespun, hairsplitting]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Finespun \Fine"spun`\, a.
   Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated;
   hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

finespun
    adj 1: developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire
           touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human
           pretense" [syn: finespun, delicate]
    2: developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
       [syn: finespun, hairsplitting]