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say it: FAHY-nur
finer is an adjective meaning "(comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence". It is pronounced /ˈfaɪnɚ/ — FAHY-nur. It carries one recorded sense.
(comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence
“a finer wine”
“a finer musician”
comparative
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for finer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.