FITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fitter mean? 

• FITTER (noun)
  The noun FITTER has 1 sense:

1. someone who fits a garment to a particular person

  Familiarity information: FITTER used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. improved in health or physical condition

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FITTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who fits a garment to a particular person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fitter" is a kind of...):

sartor; seamster; tailor (a person whose occupation is making and altering garments)

Derivation:

fit (make fit)

fit (be agreeable or acceptable to)

• FITTER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improved in health or physical condition

Synonyms:

fitter; healthier

Similar:

better ((comparative of 'good') changed for the better in health or fitness)

 Context examples 

Godalming is an amateur fitter himself, and evidently it was he who put the launch in trim again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But even fitter seniors had more lapses in language than their juniors, the findings showed.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then he bethought him that there was one beside him who was fitter to judge on such a matter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No doubt it is handsomer than mine, and fitter for a ballroom.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“It was not a cheery house, even before this shadow fell upon it. A fitter stage was never set forth for such a tragedy. But seventeen years have passed, and perhaps even that horrible ceiling—”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He only desired me to observe a ruined building, upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account: That he had a very convenient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with proposals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by pipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My tongue is a blunt one, and fitter to shout word of command than to clear up such a matter as this, of which I can myself understand little.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of reason, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in order to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow (for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valuable brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)