Main entry: meliorate, better, ameliorate, improve
Definition: get better
Usage: The weather improved toward evening
Main entry: meliorate, improve, ameliorate, amend, better
Definition: to make better
Usage: The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
Antonyms: worsen, exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate
Definition: make worse
Main entry: better
Definition: (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
Usage: You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din; a better coat; a better type of car; a suit with a better fit; a better chance of success; produced a better mousetrap; she's better in math than in history
Antonyms: worse
Definition: (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
Antonyms: unamended
Definition: (of legislation) not amended
Antonyms: unimproved
Definition: not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing
Main entry: better
Definition: (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness
Usage: her health is better now; I feel better
Main entry: better
Definition: more than half
Usage: argued for the better part of an hour
Antonyms: minor
Definition: inferior in number or size or amount
Antonyms: minor
Definition: lesser in scope or effect
Antonyms: minor, nonaged, underage
Definition: not of legal age
Antonyms: minor
Definition: of a scale or mode
Antonyms: minor
Definition: of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
Antonyms: minor
Definition: of lesser importance or stature or rank
Antonyms: minor
Definition: of lesser seriousness or danger
Main entry: best, better
Definition: (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
Usage: it would be better to speak to him; the White House thought it best not to respond
Antonyms: unadvisable, inadvisable
Definition: not prudent or wise; not recommended