improvement

1. 1.

   a change for the better; progress in development

   Synonymsbettermentadvance

   Broadertransformation

   Narrowerrevivalrefinementadjustmentconservationrecovery
2. 2.

   the act of improving something

   “their improvements increased the value of the property”

   Broaderchange of state

   Narrowertenderizationdevelopmentcleaningcorrectionoptimizationperfectionreformameliorationself-improvementclearing
3. 3.

   a condition superior to an earlier condition

   “the new school represents a great improvement”

   Synonymsmelioration

   Antonymsdecline

   Broadercondition

   Narrowerbettermentdevelopmentreformationrenovation

Other forms of improvement

plural

improvements·

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 improvement

What does improvement mean?

improvement means "a change for the better; progress in development". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in improvement?

improvement has 3 syllables: im-prove-ment. The stress falls on "prove". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɹuvmənt/.

What is another word for improvement?

Close synonyms include betterment, advance, melioration. 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.

What is the opposite of improvement?

The recorded antonyms are decline.

Is improvement a common word?

improvement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with improvement?

1 word rhymes with improvement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.