improvement
Syllables: im·prove·ment/ɪmˈpɹuːvmənt/
improvement noun: the act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering.
Noun
improvement (countable and uncountable, plural improvements)
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
I look upon your city as […] the best place of improvement. - Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
- good improvement of his reason.1705, Samuel Clarke, Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion
- I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.1681, John Tillotson, A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Mr Thomas Gouge
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- Something which is improved
- the new edition is an improvement on the old.
- The decade has seen vast improvements in techniques.
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
- Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
improvement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
improvement in Hindi
- act of improving
- सुधार sudhār, तरक़्क़ी taraqqī
improvement in Tamil
- மேம்பாடு
improvement in Marathi
- improvement, betterment, amelioration
- सुधारणा sudhāraṇā
improvement in Urdu
- act of improving
- اصلاح islāh, بہتری behtrī, ترقی taraqqī
More languagesFewer languages
- improvement in Bengali
- উন্নয়ন, উন্নতি, উন্নতিসাধন, বৃদ্ধি
- improvement in Telugu
- అభివృద్ధి abhivr̥ddhi
- improvement in Malayalam
- പുരോഗതി purōgati
- improvement in Kannada
- ಸುಧಾರಣೆ
- improvement in Punjabi
- ਸੁਧਾਰ
- improvement in Gujarati
- સુધારો, સુધારણા
- improvement in Odia
- ଉନ୍ନତି unnati, ସ୍ଫୀତି sphiti, ପ୍ରାପ୍ତି prāpti
- improvement in Arabic
- تَحْسِين taḥsīn
- improvement in Malay
- pembaikan
- improvement in Indonesian
- peningkatan, perbaikan
- improvement in Persian
- بهبود behbud, اصلاح eslâh, ترقی taraqqi
Examples of improvement in a sentence
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
- The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.1712 January 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, January 12, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number...
- Black intended an improvement on this variation but received bad advice on his pre-analysis.1968 January, Petar Trifunovich, “The Tournament of Solidarity in Skopje, the City of Earthquakes”, in Chess Review:
Synonyms of improvement
Antonyms
Forms of improvement
| plural | improvements |
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| alternative form | emprovement |
Origin of improvement
From Anglo-Norman emprouwement. By surface analysis, improve + -ment.
Words formed from improvement
Phrases with improvement
Questions about improvement
- What does improvement mean?
- Improvement means the act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering.
- What is improvement in Hindi?
- Improvement in Hindi is सुधार (sudhār), तरक़्क़ी (taraqqī). See Improvement meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use improvement in a sentence?
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare.
- What part of speech is improvement?
- Improvement is a noun.
- How do you pronounce improvement?
- Improvement is pronounced /ɪmˈpɹuːvmənt/.
- What is the plural of improvement?
- The plural of improvement is improvements.
Words near improvement in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: improvement (page history and authors); improvement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सुधारणा (Marathi) (page history and authors); improvement (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అభివృద్ధి (Telugu) (page history and authors); പുരോഗതി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); improvement (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); improvement (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); improvement (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଉନ୍ନତି (Odia) (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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