exquisite vs satisfactory

exquisite

adj
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional. 

  • Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse. 

  • Of special beauty or rare excellence. 

  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious. 

  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense. 

noun
  • Fop, dandy. 

satisfactory

adj
  • Causing satisfaction; agreeable or pleasant; satisfying. 

  • Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient. 

  • Making atonement for a sin; expiatory. 

noun
  • The rating given to somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them. 

  • Somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them. 

How often have the words exquisite and satisfactory occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )