improvement
Meaning of improvement
noun
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- 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.
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- Something which is improved
the new edition is an improvement on the old.
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- (in plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
Information about improvement
- It is a name.
- The plural form of improvement is: improvements.
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Hyphenation of improvement
im-prove-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- improvement is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
improvement synonyms
Meaning betterment:
Meaning melioration:
Meaning :
improvement antonyms
Meaning :
deterioration, disimprovement, worsening
Translation of improvement
- Spanish: mejora, avance
- French: amélioration
- Italian: miglioramento
- German: Besserung
- Portuguese: melhoria
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