finessing

Meaning of finessing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. bring about or deal with (something) by using great delicacy and skill.
    Karen spent ten months finessing the financing for the property
  2. (in bridge and whist) play (a card) in the hope of winning a trick with it because any card that could beat it is in the hand of the opponent who has already played.

late Middle English (in the sense ‘purity, delicacy’): from French, related to fine1.

Information about finessing

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of finessing is: finessings.
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Hyphenation of finessing

fi-ness-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • finessing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with finessing

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