Roget's Thesaurus

#658. Improvement

Nouns

improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending etc. v.; advancement; advance etc. (progress) 282; ascent etc. 305; promotion, preferment; elevation etc. 307; increase etc. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics. reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor [Lat.], refinement, elaboration; purification etc. 652; oxidation; repair etc. (restoration) 660; recovery etc. 660. revise, new edition. reformer, radical.

Verbs

improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend. advance etc. (progress) 282; ascend etc. 305; increase etc. 35; 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 etc. 660. be better etc. adj., 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 etc. 707; invigorate etc. (strengthen) 159. 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 etc. (restore) 660; put in order etc. (arrange) 60. review, revise; make corrections, make improvements etc. n.; doctor etc. (remedy) 662; purify, etc. 652. 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 etc. 36.

Adjectives

improving etc. v.; progressive, improved etc. v.; better, better off, better for; all the better for; better advised. reformatory, emendatory; reparatory etc. (restorative) 660; remedial etc. 662. corrigible, improvable; accultural.

Adverbs

on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice; ad melius inquirendum [Lat.].

Phrases

urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit [Lat.].