Noun (1) a $50 fine for speeding “Is there anything wrong?” “No, everything's fine.” The house looks fine to me. Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current …

FINE definition: 1. good or good enough; healthy and well: 2. excellent or much better than average: 3. very thin…. Learn more.

If you say that something is fine, you mean that it is satisfactory or acceptable. The skiing is fine. Everything was going to be just fine. It's fine to ask questions as we go along, but it's better if …

1. excellent or choice in quality; very good of its kind: a fine speech. 2. superior in skill, ability, or accomplishment: a fine violinist.

As an adjective, fine means "high quality" or "unblemished" like fine china. If you read music, you know that fine is a spot where the music finishes. Wine, food or porcelain that is exceptionally …

Idioms cut fine, to calculate precisely, esp. without allowing for possible error or accident: To finish in ten minutes is to cut it too fine.

Nov 1, 2025 · fine (third-person singular simple present fines, present participle fining, simple past and past participle fined) (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).