Word Meanings - IMPROVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To disprove or make void; to refute. Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale. 2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. Chapman. When he rehearsed
Additional info about word: IMPROVE
1. To disprove or make void; to refute. Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale. 2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. Chapman. When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing. Tyndale.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPROVE)
- Ameliorate
- Improve
- raise
- better
- advantage
- promote
- advance
- amend
- rectify
- meliorate
- Amend
- mend
- repair
- correct
- ameliorate
- reform
- Better
- Meliorate
- improve
- emend
- Chasten
- Purify
- discipline
- chastise
- castigate
- spiritualize
- afflict
- refine
- Correct Chasten
- punish
- redress
- set right
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPROVE)
Related words: (words related to IMPROVE)
- AMENDFUL
Much improving. - RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - PUNISHER
One who inflicts punishment. - DISCIPLINE
1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. 2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - AMELIORATE
To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - MELIORATER
See MELIORATOR - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - AFFLICTIVELY
In an afflictive manner. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - RIGHT
1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - BRIGHT
See I - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - PREFINE
To limit beforehand. Knolles. - CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.