improver

1. 1.

   someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms

   Synonymshumanitariando-gooder

   Broaderbenefactor
2. 2.

   a component that is added to something to improve it

   “the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement”

   “the addition of cinnamon improved the flavor”

   Synonymsadditionadd-on

   Broadercomponent

   Narroweradditiveafterthoughtannexattachmentelongation

Other forms of improver

plural

improvers·

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 improver

What does improver mean?

improver means "someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in improver?

improver has 3 syllables: im-pro-ver. The stress falls on "im".

What is another word for improver?

Close synonyms include humanitarian, do-gooder, addition, add-on. 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 improver a common word?

improver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.