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better

[bet-er] / ˈbɛt ər /

ADJECTIVE

excelling, more excellent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

exceptional improved superior

STRONG

choice exceeding fitter preferred sharpened sophisticated surpassing

WEAK

bigger finer greater higher quality larger more appropriate more desirable more fitting more select more suitable more useful more valuable preferable prominent souped-up worthier

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inferior

WEAK

littler more ill sicker smaller tinier unhealthy worse

ADJECTIVE

improved in health

Synonyms

STRONGEST

improving well

STRONG

convalescent cured fitter mending progressing recovering

WEAK

fully recovered healthier less ill more healthy on the comeback trail on the mend on the road to recovery out of the woods over the hump stronger

Antonyms

WEAK

littler more ill sicker smaller tinier unhealthy worse

ADJECTIVE

larger

Synonyms

STRONGEST

STRONG

longer

WEAK

bigger greater preponderant weightier

Antonyms

WEAK

littler more ill sicker smaller tinier unhealthy worse

ADVERB

in a more excellent manner

Synonyms

STRONGEST

WEAK

finer greater in a superior way more advantageously more attractively more competently more completely more effectively more thoroughly preferably to a greater degree

Antonyms

WEAK

worse

VERB

improve performance; outdo

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advance beat correct enhance exceed excel raise surpass

STRONG

ameliorate amend best cap forward further help meliorate mend outshine outstrip promote rectify refine reform revamp top transcend

Antonyms

STRONGEST

be inferior decrease fail fall behind lose lower reduce retreat stop

STRONG

block cease check corrupt damage halt harm hinder hurt impair impede injure obstruct ruin worsen

WEAK

deteriorate get worse

Usage

What are other ways to say improve? To better is to improve conditions which, though not bad, are unsatisfying: to better an attempt, oneself (as by gaining a higher salary). Improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). The more formal verb ameliorate implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions.

Example Sentences

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Never mind, better luck next year and all that.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

“When APP delivers better ad targeting, its unit economics, growth profile, and margins all improve,” wrote analysts Matthew Cost and Brian Nowak.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

All the same, Fleischer Studios’ maverick reputation is better represented in a short like the fabulously fantastical “Swing You Sinners!”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

But he was better known in France for his hundreds of episodes as Dr. Renee Dumaze on the popular daytime drama “Tomorrow Is Ours.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

“You can see better than that! Do you want to be rejected?”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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