improvement

improvement
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Making better
Nouns
1. improvement, uplift; melioration, amelioration, betterment, uptick; mend, amendment, emendation; advancement, advance, development, progress, telesis, quantum jump or leap, progression, ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation, increase; evolution; upward mobility, gentrification, green revolution, urban renewal; cultivation, civilization, culture; crusade, crusading; perestroika.
2. reform, reformation, revision; correction, refinement, enhancement; perfection, purification (see cleanness); repair, restoration; recovery. See relief.
3. reformer, radical, progressive, crusader; new man. Informal, do-gooder, new-collar.
Verbs
1. improve; better, mend, amend; turn to good account, profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital of; make the best of; evolve, develop, advance, ascend, increase; fructify, ripen, mature; come along, gain ground, pick up, come about, rally, take a turn for the better; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner, break new ground; come a long way, recover; gentrify. Informal, look up, snap out of it.
2. meliorate, ameliorate; palliate, mitigate; turn the tide; correct, rectify, retrofit; enrich, mellow, fatten; promote, prefer; cultivate, advance, forward, enhance, refine (upon); update; bring forward, bring on; foster (see aid); invigorate, strengthen.
3. touch up, brush up, refurbish, renovate, polish, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair, restore (see restoration); put in order.
4. revise, edit, correct; debug; straighten out; doctor, purify; relieve, refresh, infuse new blood or life into; reform, remodel, retrofit, reorganize.
Adjectives — improving, on the mend; improved; progressive; better [off], better for; reformatory, emendatory; reparatory, restorative, remedial; corrigible, improvable.
Adverbs — for the better. Informal, over the hump, out of the woods.
Phrases — April showers bring May flowers.
Quotations — Change is certain. Progress is not (E. H. Carr), All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face-to-face with another problem (Martin Luther King), And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man (J. G. Whittier), We have made progress in everything, yet nothing has changed (Derrick Bell), Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Stanislaw Lec).
Antonyms, see deterioration.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The process of making or becoming better]
Syn. betterment, amelioration, melioration, rectification, change, amendment, alteration, reformation, progression, advance, advancement, development, refinement, growth, rise, reclamation, civilization, gain, cultivation, progressiveness, increase, enrichment, promotion, recovery, recuperation, healing, regeneration, furtherance, renovation, modernization, remodeling, refurbishment, repair, reorganization, reform, emendation, revision, elaboration, enhancement, elevation, preferment, ennoblement, shaking down*, getting the bugs out*; see also revision .
Ant. decay*, deterioration, retrogression.
2. [That which has been improved]
Syn. addition, supplement, repair, extra, attachment, correction, reform, remodeling, modernization, betterment, refinement, luxury, advance, advancement, step forward, enhancement, New model, deluxe model, latest thing*, last word*; see also change 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
enhancement, enrichment, amelioration, betterment, change for the better, progression, advance, upgrade, rectification, furtherance, revision.
ANT.: worsening, impairment, decline
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of making better or the condition of being made better: amelioration, amendment, betterment, melioration, upgrade. See BETTER. 2. Steady improvement, as of an individual or a society: amelioration, betterment, development, melioration, progress. See BETTER.

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