The meaning of IMPROVE is to enhance in value or quality : make better. How to use improve in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Improve.

Phrasal verb improve on/upon something (Definition of improve from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

IMPROVE definition: to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition. See examples of improve used in a sentence.

If you improve on a previous achievement of your own or of someone else, you achieve a better standard or result. We need to improve on our performance against France. [VERB + on]

When you improve something, you make it better. For example, you can improve your harmonica playing with practice.

To advance to a more desirable state: ameliorate, amend, better, help, meliorate, upgrade.

Improve, ameliorate, better imply bringing to a more desirable state. Improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge).

A drawing of a man pointing to a graphing showing an improvement in sales numbers. Improvement is the process of a thing moving from one state to a state considered to be …

To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

Some common synonyms of improve are ameliorate, better, and help. While all these words mean "to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard," improve and better are general and …