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.].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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