- in a way that is acceptable or good enough
- Keep going like that—you're doing fine.
- Things were going fine until you showed up.
- That arrangement suits me fine.
- (British English) An omelette will do me fine (= will be enough for me).
Word Originadverb Middle English: from Old French fin, based on Latin finire ‘to finish’, from finis ‘end’.
Idioms
See fine in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarycut it/things fine
- (informal) to leave yourself just enough time to do something
- If we don't leave till after lunch we'll be cutting it very fine.
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