Word Meanings - FINESSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FINESSE)

• Cheat
• Deception
• fraud
• imposition
• trick
• artifice
• illusion
• imposture
• swindle
• finesse
• deceit
• lie
• fiction
• Refinement
• Clarification
• purification
• filtration
• sublimation
• polish
• elegance
• cultivation
• civilization
• subtilty
• sophistry
• Trick
• Artifice
• contrivance
• machination
• guile
• stratagem
• wile
• cheat
• juggle
• antic
• vagary
• sleight
• deception
• delusion
• legerdemain

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FINESSE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to FINESSE)

• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• ANTICLY
  Oddly; grotesquely.
• ANTICHLOR
  Any substance used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• ANTICIPANT
  Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The
• ANTIC
  "Lords of antic fame." Phaer. 2. Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller. (more info) 1.
• ANTICIPATIVE
  Anticipating, or containing anticipation. "Anticipative of the feast to come." Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv.
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• INFANTICIDE
  The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. (more info) antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.