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improved Synonyms

improved

modif.

  1. Made better

    enhanced, augmented, corrected, ameliorated, bettered, amended, mended, reformed, elaborated, enriched, refined, processed, upgraded, modernized, brought up-to-date, repaired, bolstered up, rectified, rehabilitated, remodeled, renovated, reorganized, made over, better for, fixed up*, doctored up*, polished up*; see also changed 2, revised.

    Antonyms damaged*, injured, worsened.

  2. In better health

    recovered, convalescent, making a rapid recovery; see convalescent, well 1.

improved Quotes

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

—Dunne, Finley Peter

'Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death,'said Clovis.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

Weep not for little Le¤  onie Abducted by a French Marquis! Though loss of honour was a wrench Just think how it's improved her French.

—Graham, Harry

The Englishwoman's clothes, too, have improved out of all knowledge†no longer are our hats, as inVictorian days, a kind of Pageant of Empire, whereon the products of all the colonies battle for precedence.

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa