FINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finer mean? 

• FINER (adjective)
  The adjective FINER has 1 sense:

1. (comparative of 'fine') greater in quality or excellence

  Familiarity information: FINER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(comparative of 'fine') greater in quality or excellence

Context example:

a finer musician

Similar:

better ((comparative of 'good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another)

Domain usage:

comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)

 Context examples 

These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would have been hard that night, through the whole length of England, to set up a finer pair in face of each other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bigger the telescope, the finer the resolution and level of detail.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And the bird came and brought a still finer dress than the one she had worn the day before.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

After all, I thought, it is better and finer to love than to be loved, if it makes something in life so worth while that one is not loath to die for it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

No finer action was done in the whole war.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be the last—in all probability—the last scene on that stage; but he was sure there could not be a finer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Any kind of work, no trade," he told the agent; and was interrupted by a new-comer, dressed rather foppishly, as some workingmen dress who have instincts for finer things.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It would be difficult to name any articles which afford a finer field for inference than a pair of glasses, especially so remarkable a pair as these.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)