to improve

Examples

• All

• Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wants to improve the No Child Left Behind program.

  Academic text (2011)

• What can you do to improve your situation?

• You must take active steps always, always to improve your situation.

  Shawn Ryan Show

• I gotta improve my image.

  Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

• Now I want to improve this plot in general.

• Although it does improve your chances of getting in.

  Buck Southworth: U.S. Air Force Flight Crew (2021)

• And having a healthy plant rich diet could improve symptoms greatly.

  Rich Roll

• HRT in some women has been shown to improve sleep, but not for all.

• A basic question is, how can educational efforts improve the accuracy of bullying surveys?

  Academic text (2011)

• Their morale's improved since those substitutions.

  Killer Waves 2 (2020)

Synonyms

G

to get better

vsto improve

573 1.0

To become healthier, more skilled, or more successful

also includes taking action to make something more satisfactory rather than only changing naturally

E

to enhance

vsto improve

424 4.0

Make something better or more attractive

is the general word for making something more satisfactory, not only raising value

E

to enrich

vsto improve

85 3.9

To make something better by adding knowledge or nutrients

is the general action of making something more satisfactory, not specifically by adding elements

O

to optimize

vsto improve

69 5.3

Make something work as well as possible

aims for general change to be more satisfactory rather than reaching the highest possible state

B

to better

vsto improve

35 1.8

To improve something

is broader, covering general change rather than focusing on surpassing a past level

A

to ameliorate

vsto improve

11 8.1

To make a bad situation better

is the general term for any positive change, not only for fixing bad situations

P

to polish up

vsto improve

• Informal

4 3.5

Make something better by practicing or fixing it

is used more generally and not only for the last stage of making something nicer

M

to meliorate

vsto improve

9.8

To become or make something better

is the common general word used instead of this alternative term

Antonyms

D

to deteriorate

146 5.9

To get worse in quality, condition, or value

Idioms

O

on the improve

• Archaic

7.5

Getting better after being worse

How Effective

to transform

523 3.4

to upgrade

177 3.5

to enhance

424 4.0

to improve

∞ 1.0

fix

76 1.0

tweak

28 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology