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better

[bet-er] / ˈbɛt ər /


ADJECTIVE
larger
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK






Usage

What are other ways to say improve? To better is to improve conditions which, though not bad, are unsatisfying: to better an attempt, oneself (as by gaining a higher salary). Improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). The more formal verb ameliorate implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions.

Example Sentences

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Your character is coming out at a time when he would be considered, for lack of a better term, the monster.

From Los Angeles Times

"We now have all these new molecular targets and a better understanding of what is underlying the biology, which could give us new angles to improve outcomes for patients," Shalek says.

From Science Daily

"With potentially 70 percent of the adult population now considered to have excess fat, we need to better understand what treatment approaches to prioritize."

From Science Daily

But nothing I have read in the scientific literature explains longevity better than the lives of my incorrigibly social parents, Benjamin and Marsha Emanuel.

From The Wall Street Journal

I want to say we all have to become better people.

From The Wall Street Journal