enhancement

1. 1.

   an improvement that makes something more agreeable

   Synonymssweetening

   Broaderimprovement

Other forms of enhancement

plural

enhancements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enhancement

What does enhancement mean?

enhancement means "an improvement that makes something more agreeable".

How many syllables are in enhancement?

enhancement has 3 syllables: en-han-cement. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ɛnˈhænsmənt/.

What is another word for enhancement?

Close synonyms include sweetening. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enhancement a common word?

enhancement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.