meliorism

improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; advancement; advance (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics., reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair (restoration); recovery., revise, new edition., reformer, radical.

improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend., advance (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover., be better, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account., render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify., improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten., promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster; invigorate (strengthen)., touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair (restore); put in order (arrange)., review, revise; make corrections, make improvements; doctor (remedy); purify., relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit., reform, remodel, reorganize; new model., view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip, drunk to Philip sober., palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil.

improving; progressive, improved; better, better off, better for; all the better for; better advised., reformatory, emendatory; reparatory (restorative); remedial., corrigible, improvable; accultural.

on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice; ad melius inquirendum.