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)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

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.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.