| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | boom, growth, increase, upturn |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, meliorism, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, diminishing, harm, hurt, injury, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | leap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jump; increase |
| Synonyms: | bound, caper, escalation, frisk, hop, rise, skip, spring, surge, upsurge, upswing, vault |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, doubling, enlargement, growth, heightening, hike, increment, inflation, intensification, intensifying, multiplication, piling up, progress, promotion, raise, stacking up, step-up, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, waxing |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
| Main Entry: | upsurge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | advance, boom, improvement, recovery, rise, upswing, upturn |
| Antonyms: | downturn |
| Main Entry: | upturn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | recovery, recuperation, upswing |
| Main Entry: | aggrandizement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | aggrandization, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, multiplication, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn |
| Main Entry: | melioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
| Concept: | Improvement. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; advancement; advance (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics., reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair (restoration); recovery., revise, new edition., reformer, radical.
-verbs
improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend., advance (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover., be better, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account., render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify., improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten., promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster; invigorate (strengthen)., touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair (restore); put in order (arrange)., review, revise; make corrections, make improvements; doctor (remedy); purify., relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit., reform, remodel, reorganize; new model., view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip, drunk to Philip sober., palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil.
-adjectives
improving; progressive, improved; better, better off, better for; all the better for; better advised., reformatory, emendatory; reparatory (restorative); remedial., corrigible, improvable; accultural.
-adverbs
on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice; ad melius inquirendum.
-phrases
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| Antonyms: | deterioration |
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