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FINER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(comparative of 'fine') greater in quality or excellence
Example:
a finer musician
Classified under:
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:
To the theatre accordingly they all went; no Tilneys appeared to plague or please her; she feared that, amongst the many perfections of the family, a fondness for plays was not to be ranked; but perhaps it was because they were habituated to the finer performances of the London stage, which she knew, on Isabella's authority, rendered everything else of the kind quite horrid.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Two hundred sempstresses were employed to make me shirts, and linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest and coarsest kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in several folds, for the thickest was some degrees finer than lawn.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It is my fate, said Mr. Micawber, unfeignedly sobbing, but doing even that, with a shadow of the old expression of doing something genteel; it is my fate, gentlemen, that the finer feelings of our nature have become reproaches to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And a brave lad you were, and smart too,” answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook, “and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Nay, man, there are finer stalls in Cheapside,” answered Ford, whose father had taken him to London on occasion of one of the Smithfield joustings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am sure I know none so handsome; but in the gallery up stairs you will see a finer, larger picture of him than this.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I want the man I love and honor to be something finer and higher than a perpetrator of jokes and doggerel.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“My money is on the old one, but the other is the finer boxer.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I've had the room next to mine prepared for you; it is only a small apartment, but I thought you would like it better than one of the large front chambers: to be sure they have finer furniture, but they are so dreary and solitary, I never sleep in them myself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
