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betterment - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | betterment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | advancement, mastery, progress, prosperity, amelioration, melioration, upgrading |
| Antonyms: | deterioration, impairment, unhealthiness, worsening |
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| Main Entry: | betterment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
all the better for, aright, better, better advised, better for, better off, corrigible, emendatory, improvable, improved, improving, progressive, reformatory, remedial, reparatory
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| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
| Synonyms: | betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, teaching, tuition, uplifting, irradiation, schooling |
| Antonyms: | destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, reformation, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing, amelioration, meliorism, preferment, rectification, regeneration |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, harm, hurt, injury, diminishing, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, gain |
| Synonyms: | advance, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, stride, tour, voyage, way, amelioration, anabasis, evolvement, step forward, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression |
| Main Entry: | progression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, development, evolution, furtherance, growth, headway, improvement, promotion, amelioration, evolvement, forward march, getting ahead, giant strides, going forward, step forward |
| Main Entry: | advancement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promotion, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, betterment, elevation, gain, growth, headway, improvement, preference, rise, amelioration, preferment, prelation, upgrading |
| Notes: | advance means 'steady progress' and stresses effective assisting in hastening a process or bringing about a desired end, while advancement suggests progression that is bigger, more, or beyond normal |
| Antonyms: | cessation, decline, descent, downfall, retreat, retrogression, stoppage, regression |
| Main Entry: | amendment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correction, improvement |
| Synonyms: | alteration, betterment, change, correction, enhancement, improvement, mending, modification, reform, reformation, remedy, repair, revision, amelioration, rectification |
| Antonyms: | worsening |
| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant thing |
| Synonyms: | advantage, betterment, comfort, convenience, enhancement, enrichment, excellence, extravagance, facility, frill, improvement, luxury, merit, quality, service, superfluity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | abomination, inconvenience |
| Main Entry: | benefit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, profit |
| Synonyms: | account, aid, asset, assistance, avail, benediction, betterment, blessing, boon, cream*, egg in one's beer, extras, favor, gain, godsend*, good, gravy*, help, interest, perk*, profit, prosperity, use, welfare, worth |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, handicap, harm, hindrance, hurt, loss, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | promotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher position in organization |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, advocacy, backing, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, bump, elevation, encouragement, exaltation, furtherance, go-ahead*, hike, honor, improvement, jump, lift, preference, progress, raise, rise, step up, support, upgrade, aggrandizement, ennoblement, favoring, jump up, move up, preferment, prelation, upgrading |
| Antonyms: | demotion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, progress in development |
| Synonyms: | advancement, betterment, boost, break*, breakthrough, buildup, development, enrichment, furtherance, gain, go-ahead*, growth, headway, increase, progress, promotion, rise, step, up, upgrade, amelioration, upping |
| Antonyms: | block, failure, impediment, recession, stagnation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emendation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | amendment, betterment, correction, amelioration |
| Main Entry: | recovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | the process of regaining health |
| Synonyms: | betterment, comeback, cure, healing, improvement, rebirth, rehabilitation, rejuvenation, renaissance, renewal, resurgence, resurrection, revival, convalescence, reawakening, recuperation, regeneration, reinvigoration, renascence, resuscitation, revivification |
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