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 …

That's a fine (= very unpleasant) thing to say about your father after all he's done for you! He picked a fine time to leave us.

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

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.

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 …

Dec 29, 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).

There are 58 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word fine, ten of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

fine definition: healthy or well. Check meanings, examples, usage tips, pronunciation, domains, and related words. Discover expressions like "cut fine", "fine line", "fine mess".

Definition of fine noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

FINE meaning: 1 : good, acceptable, or satisfactory ok; 2 : used in an ironic way to refer to things that are not good or acceptable