improving

Adjective
Synonyms: up

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. getting higher or more vigorous“its an up market”“an improving economy”Synonyms: up
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Improving \Im*prov"ing\, a. Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better. -- Im*prov"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Improving lease (Scots Law), an extended lease to induce the tenant to make improvements on the premises. [1913 Webster]

Improve \Im*prove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Improved; p. pr. & vb. n. Improving.] [Pref. in- in + prove, in approve. See Approve, Prove.]

1.To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land. --Donne. [1913 Webster]

I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead.— Denham.[1913 Webster]

2.To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

We shall especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us.— Barrow.[1913 Webster]
A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.— Blackstone.[1913 Webster]
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour.— I. Watts.[1913 Webster]
Those moments were diligently improved.— Gibbon.[1913 Webster]
True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.— Washington.[1913 Webster]

3.To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad. [R.] [1913 Webster]

We all have, I fear, . . . not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors.— Bp. Porteus.

Syn: To better; meliorate; ameliorate; advance; heighten; mend; correct; rectify; amend; reform. [1913 Webster]

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