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gotten better

gotten better is the past participle of get better.

Meaning of get better

Verb

get better (third-person singular simple present gets better, present participle getting better, simple past got better, past participle (UK) got better or (US) gotten better)

  1. (intransitive, literally) To improve.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
    • [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch?
      [Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt!
      [Sir Bedevere]: A newt?
      [Peasant]: ... I got better.1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote)

Questions about gotten better

What is gotten better the past participle of?
Gotten better is the past participle of get better.

Words near gotten better in the dictionary

  1. gotten back at
  2. gotten back on the horse that bucked one
  3. gotten back to
  4. gotten behind
  5. gotten bent out of shape
  6. gotten better
  7. gotten between
  8. gotten blood from a stone
  9. gotten blood from a turnip
  10. gotten blood out of a stone
  11. gotten busy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten better (page history and authors); get better (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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