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| Main Entry: | upgrade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve |
| Synonyms: | advance, better, boost, elevate, enhance, increase, lift, progress, promote, raise, make better, make strides, move up |
| Main Entry: | ameliorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make, become better |
| Synonyms: | alleviate, amend, help, improve, lighten, meliorate, mitigate, relieve, step up, upgrade |
| Antonyms: | worsen |
| Main Entry: | enhance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
| Synonyms: | add to, adorn, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, beautify, boom, boost, build up, complement, elevate, embroider, enlarge, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, increase, intensify, lift, magnify, pad*, pyramid*, raise, reinforce, strengthen, swell, upgrade, flesh out |
| Antonyms: | decrease, fix, lower, minimize, reduce, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enrich |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
| Synonyms: | adorn, aggrandize, ameliorate, augment, beef up*, better, build, build up, cultivate, decorate, develop, endow, enhance, figure in, grace, ornament, pad, parlay, pyramid*, refine, spike*, step up, supplement, sweeten*, up*, upgrade, flesh out, hike up, hop up, jack up, jazz up, make rich, pour it on, run up*, soup up |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deplete, impoverish, reduce, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exalt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promote, praise |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, advance, aggrandize, applaud, bless, boost, build up*, commend, dignify, distinguish, ennoble, erect, eulogize, extol, glorify, halo, honor, idolize, intensify, laud, magnify, raise, revere, sublime, upgrade, worship, apotheosize, pay homage to, pay tribute to, set on pedestal, transfigure, uprear |
| Notes: | exalt means to elevate, praise, or raise a person or thing; exult means to rejoice greatly |
| Antonyms: | castigate, condemn, criticize, debase, denounce, humiliate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | improve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become better |
| Synonyms: | advance, ameliorate, amend, augment, better, boost, civilize, convalesce, correct, cultivate, develop, edit, elevate, emend, enhance, gain ground*, help, increase, lift, look up*, meliorate, mend, perk up*, pick up*, polish, progress, promote, purify, raise, rally, recover, rectify, recuperate, refine, reform, revamp, revise, rise, sharpen, skyrocket*, take off*, touch up*, update, upgrade, come around*, doctor up, make strides, set right, shape up, straighten out*, turn the corner |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, diminish, harm, hurt, injure, weaken, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition, growth |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, development, elaboration, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, gain, hike, incorporation, increment, inflation, merger, multiplication, raise, rise, spread, surge, swell, swelling, upgrade, upsurge, upturn, aggrandizement, burgeoning, cumulation, intensification, maximization, optimization, step-up, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depletion, diminishment, loss, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | prefer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | favor; single out |
| Synonyms: | adopt, advance, aggrandize, choose, cull, desire, elect, elevate, fancy, finger, go for, incline, mark, pick, place, pose, present, promote, proposition, put, raise, select, suggest, tag, take, tap, upgrade, wish, be partial to, be turned on to, fix upon, like better, opt for, optate, propone, propound, put forward, would rather, would sooner |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, reject, spurn |
| Main Entry: | remedy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fix, cure |
| Synonyms: | aid, alleviate, ameliorate, amend, assuage, attend, change, clean up, clean up one's act, control, correct, debug*, doctor, ease, fiddle with, fix up, go over, heal, help, launder, make up for, mitigate, palliate, pick up, put right, recalibrate, rectify, redress, reform, relieve, renew, repair, restore, revise, right, scrub, set right, set to rights, shape up, solve, soothe, square up, square*, straighten out, treat, upgrade |
| Antonyms: | get sick, harm, hurt, injure, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | remodel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reconstruct |
| Synonyms: | do up*, fix, fix up, modernize, overhaul, rebuild, refurbish, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, renovate, repair, restore, revamp, upgrade, make over, reassemble, recast, recondition, recreate, redesign, remake |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correct, edit |
| Synonyms: | alter, amend, change, compare, cut, debug, develop, emend, go over, improve, launder, modify, overhaul, perfect, polish, reconsider, redo, reexamine, rehash, reorganize, revamp, review, rework, rewrite, run through, scan, scrub, scrutinize, study, tighten, update, upgrade, blue-pencil*, clean up, look over, recalibrate, recast, redraft, redraw, restyle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meliorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amend |
| Synonyms: | advance, ameliorate, better, correct, improve, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | renovation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remodeling |
| Synonyms: | improvement, renewal, repair, restoration, upgrade, facelift |
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | addition, advance, breakthrough, expansion, hike, improvement, increment, jump, lift, raise, rise, up, upgrade, wax, step-up |
| Antonyms: | blow, decrease, hindrance, setback |
| Main Entry: | correct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fix, adjust |
| Synonyms: | alter, ameliorate, amend, better, change, cure, debug*, doctor*, edit, emend, fix up, go over, help, improve, launder, mend, pick up, polish, reclaim, reconstruct, rectify, redress, reform, regulate, remedy, remodel, reorganize, repair, retouch, review, revise, right, scrub*, touch up, upgrade, clean up, clean up act, do over, fiddle with, get with it, make over, make right, make up for, pay dues, put in order, set right, set straight, shape up, straighten out, turn around |
| Antonyms: | blow, blunder, goof, mistake |
* = 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: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, enlargement, growth, hike, increment, inflation, multiplication, progress, promotion, raise, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, aggrandizement, doubling, heightening, intensification, intensifying, piling up, stacking up, step-up, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
| 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: | elevate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promote; augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggrandize, appoint, boost, build up, dignify, enhance, ennoble, exalt, further, glorify, heighten, honor, increase, intensify, magnify, prefer, put up, skip, swell, upgrade |
| Antonyms: | condemn, demote, denounce, deprecate, disdain, lessen, lower, spurn |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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