The meaning of IMPROVE is to enhance in value or quality : make better. How to use improve in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Improve.
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to get better, or to make something better: [ I ] Her grades have improved greatly this semester. [ T ] He did a lot to improve conditions for factory workers. If you improve on something, you succeed in doing or making it better: [ I ] The company is hoping to improve on last year’s sales figures.
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Synonyms for IMPROVE: enhance, help, better, refine, amend, remedy, upgrade, remediate; Antonyms of IMPROVE: worsen, impair, hurt, harm, damage, injure, reduce, spoil.
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To improve something is to bring it into a more desirable or excellent condition. How is improve different from the verbs ameliorate and better? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
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1. To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better: Exercise can improve your health. 2. To increase the productivity or value of (land or property): improved the house by adding a bathroom. v.intr. 1. To become better: Economic conditions are improving. 2.
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When you improve something, you make it better. For example, you can improve your harmonica playing with practice. Be happy when you see this word, because something is getting better — improving. Getting a tutor will usually improve your grades.
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improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). ameliorate , a formal word, implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions.
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