Improve, better, help, ameliorate mean to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard Compare also icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), german besser. Improve and better are general and interchangeable and apply to what can be made better whether it is good or bad.
What is a basic definition of better Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”) Better is an adjective that describes something as being superior or is an adverb that means something is done to a higher degree or more completely.
Trying to better conditions in the prison Bettered myself by changing jobs Practiced so he could better his rival. Find 792 different ways to say better, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at thesaurus.com.
[usually singular] something that is preferable The better of two choices [plural] those superior to oneself Stop thinking of them as your betters.
