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better

[bet-er] / ˈbɛt ər /


ADJECTIVE
larger
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK






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.

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The team paired the new catalyst with a nickel iron anode and found that the system performed better than a leading state-of-the-art cathode, including one based on PGM materials.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

So if you made it to university in the 1980s, you would have been much better off then than now.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

The best baseball player of the 2010s is playing better than he has in years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

If Lily, Mopple and the rest can set their part of the world right, there’s no reason we can’t find our way to better pastures, too.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Clare knew, better than anyone, where that was: one of the four realms of the Afterlife.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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