finesse
Meaning of finesse
noun
- Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
- The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
- An adroit manoeuvre.
- In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
- To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
- To play (a card) as a finesse.
- To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
- To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
- To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
Information about finesse
- The plural form of finesse is: finesses.
- Languages in which finesse is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of finesse
fi-nesse
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- finesse is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
finesse synonyms
Meaning delicacy:
delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness
Meaning :
Translation of finesse
- Spanish: dominar
Words that rhyme with finesse
esse, Besse, abesse, cesse, necesse, princesse, Clindesse, caddesse, cadesse, desse, fesse, gesse, largesse, sagesse, Hesse, Luchesse, duchesse, ghesse, richesse, hardiesse, Jesse, jesse, kesse, Alesse, ablesse, blesse, feblesse, foiblesse, gentilesse, hartlesse, hostlesse, humblesse, idlesse, ignoblesse, nathelesse, nimblesse, nobilesse, noblesse, rechlesse, rulesse, seemelesse, simplesse, weeldlesse, Ramesse, commesse, entremesse, kermesse, messe, Agnesse, Jeunesse
Are you looking more rhymes for finesse? Try our rhymes search engine.