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Definitions for Finesse

[1] extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
[2] skill in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; adroit and artful management: exceptional diplomatic finesse.
[3] a trick, artifice, or stratagem.
[4] Bridge , Whist . an attempt to win a trick with a card while holding a higher card not in sequence with it, in the hope that the card or cards between will not be played.
[5] to use finesse or artifice.
[6] to make a finesse at cards.
[7] to bring about by finesse or artifice.
[8] to avoid; circumvent.
[9] to make a finesse with (a card).
[10] to force the playing of (a card) by a finesse.
[11] elegant skill in style or performance
[12] subtlety and tact in handling difficult situations
[13] bridge whist an attempt to win a trick when opponents hold a high card in the suit led by playing a lower card, hoping the opponent who has already played holds the missing card
[14] a trick, artifice, or strategy
[15] to manage or bring about with finesse
[16] to play (a card) as a finesse

Words related to Finesse

guile, acumen, subtlety, tact, sophistication, quickness, savvy, skill, competence, stratagem, adroitness, diplomacy, artifice, racket, polish, gimmick, ruse, cleverness, adeptness, discretion

Words nearby Finesse

fineness ratio, finer, finery, fines herbes, finespun, finesse, finest, finestra, finfish, finfoot, fingal's cave

Origin of Finesse

1400–50; late Middle English: degree of excellence or purity < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *fīnitia. See fine1, -ice

Word origin for Finesse

C15: from Old French, from fin fine, delicate; see fine 1

Synonyms for Finesse

acumen, competence, guile, quickness, savvy, skill, sophistication, subtlety, tact, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, bluff, cleverness, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, polish, racket, ruse, savoir-faire, stratagem, trick, wile, big stick, grift, run-around