improvement
Roget category 658
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends
#658.
Improvement
noun
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.
verb
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.
adjective
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†.
adverb
on consideration,
on reconsideration,
on second thoughts,
on better advice —
ad melius inquirendum [Lat.].
phrase
urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit [Lat.].
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