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better

1 of 5

adjective

bet·​ter ˈbe-tər How to pronounce better (audio)

comparative of good

1
: greater than half
for the better part of an hour
2
: improved in health or mental attitude
feeling better
3
: more attractive, favorable, or commendable
in better circumstances
4
: more advantageous or effective
a better solution
5
: improved in accuracy or performance
building a better engine

better

2 of 5

verb

bettered; bettering; betters

transitive verb

1
: to make better (see better entry 1): such as
a
: to make more tolerable or acceptable
trying to better the lot of slum dwellers
b
: to make more complete or perfect
looked forward to bettering her acquaintance with the new neighbors
2
: to surpass in excellence : excel
bettered his personal record by nearly three seconds

intransitive verb

: to become better
… must be bettering instead of worsening. Thomas Carlyle

better

3 of 5

adverb

comparative of well

1
a
: in a more excellent manner
sings better than I do
b
: to greater advantage : preferably
some things are better left unsaid
2
a
: to a higher or greater degree
he knows the story better than you do
b
: more
it is better than nine miles to the next town

better

4 of 5

noun

1
a
: something better (see better entry 1)
I expected better from them
b
: a superior especially in merit or rank
was respectful of his betters
2
: advantage, victory
get the better of her

better

5 of 5

auxiliary verb

: had better (see better entry 3 sense 1b)
you better hurry

Synonyms

Verb

Adverb

Noun

Choose the Right Synonym for better

improve, better, help, ameliorate mean to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard.

improve and better are general and interchangeable and apply to what can be made better whether it is good or bad.

measures to further improve the quality of medical care
immigrants hoping to better their lot

help implies a bettering that still leaves room for improvement.

a coat of paint would help that house

ameliorate implies making more tolerable or acceptable conditions that are hard to endure.

tried to ameliorate the lives of people in the tenements

Example Sentences

Adjective Her second book is better than her first one. This one is no better than that one. She's a better golfer than I am. He's a better singer than he is an actor. He's much better with children now that he's a father himself. The weather is better today than it was yesterday. They came up with a better solution to the problem. Don't you have something better to do than to watch TV all day? Her work wasn't that good at first, but it's getting better. Her work just keeps getting better and better. Verb They are trying to better the lives of working people. He looked forward to bettering his acquaintance with the new neighbors. The team has bettered its chances of winning the championship. She bettered her previous performance. He set a record that has never been equaled or bettered. Adverb “How is she doing in school?” “She did badly at first, but now she's doing much better.” She sings better than I do. He sings better than he acts. “Instead of writing to her, I'm going to visit her in person.” “Even better.” He knows the story much better than you do. Her paintings have become better known in recent years. There's nothing I'd like better than to see you again. Noun They shouldn't treat him that way. He deserves better. be polite to your betters and to your inferiors in equal measure See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Even investors who don’t buy the innovation story can’t deny that the U.S. has done a far better job than the rest of the developed world in rebuilding its economy since the financial crisis. James Mackintosh, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 To be a jury member and a celebrity requires an impactful wardrobe, and nobody understood this better than actor Tessa Thompson. Christian Allaire, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2022 The important people in your life are highlighted as the Full Moon shines upon your 7th House of Contracts and Marriages, proving that sometimes two heads really are better than one. Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022 Others have suggested that oral or nasal vaccines would do a better job of not just preventing severe disease, but stopping transmission. Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 9 Sep. 2022 Sports business experts believe that's because the at-home viewing experience — buoyed by high-definition television — is much better than in decades past. Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2022 With over 35 years of experience, Czech knows this better than anyone and has racked up an impressive list of celebrity clientele along the way. Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2022 Voting rights advocates say election officials should have done a better job on the front end of assessing who was qualified to register to vote. Tim Craig And Lori Rozsa, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2022 Ezra Young, a civil rights lawyer and visiting law professor at Cornell University, said Connecticut does a better job of regulating insurance companies than other states, but transgender patients still face barriers. Kate Farrish, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022
Verb
And that atonement provides a way for imperfect people to better themselves, to ride the wagon, to fall off the wagon, to climb aboard the wagon again, and keep on rolling in the direction of eternal progression. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 Portwood went live on Instagram after news of the ruling went public Tuesday, sharing that she is dedicated to staying positive and exploring her options, also emphasizing the work she's done to better herself in recent years. Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022 Both were constantly searching for ways to better their system or exploit some new edge. Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022 Nkechi’s commitment to emerging writers, mentorship, and her desire to better the world through creative work is inspiring. Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022 Having a process to evaluate partnerships and making the evaluation results part of vendors’ profiles contributes to better internal decision-making. Bruno Gralpois, Forbes, 15 July 2022 Build the wall, and welcome in people from around the world who want to better themselves and will be productive members of our society. Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022 Researchers say this perspective opens the door for employers and health providers to offer a range of modalities that may work for people looking to better their overall health. Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 18 July 2022 Rarely in investing is there the opportunity to invest in a project that has the potential to better your community and infuse the local economy with new jobs. Bob Mangat, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
Adverb
Each issue of this guide covers a specific topic — such as addressing burnout with resilience or suicide prevention — and includes relevant articles, tools and tips to help leaders better understand the topic. Karen S. Lynch For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022 One of its tools, Environmental Insights Explorer, is designed to enable local governments to better understand building and transportation emissions and the solar potential for rooftops. Matt Whittaker, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2022 Research is also progressing with a program, created by the Department of Defense, to better understand the links between cancer and military toxic exposure. Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022 Beyond offering opportunities to better understand hair biology, this research emphasizes the complexity of hair loss: SCUBE3, TRN-001, and cloned cells can’t help patients who don’t have hair follicles in the first place. WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022 Last month, in a bid to better understand how storms form, scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) flew their hurricane hunting aircraft to Cape Verde for the first time ever. Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022 In the court system, some judges are traveling to indigenous communities in a wider variety of cases to better understand cultural and heritage issues. Mike Cherney, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 To better understand Maryan’s art, here’s a glimpse at his life. Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022 The space telescope has been observing the cloud to help astronomers better understand early star formation that occurs in the Tarantula Nebula. Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Sep. 2022
Noun
That’s about double the pace of pre-coronavirus times, a surge in part explained by the transition of sports betters into day trading in the absence of live sports. David Z. Morris, Fortune, 20 May 2020 Setting aside the Escape, each of the other rivals that trailed it to the finish line has a trait or two—be it sportiness, roominess, cargo volume, or feature count—that matches or betters what the CX-5 brings to the fight. Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2020 Seasoned sports betters looking for an easy onboarding into digital gaming are slowly finding their way onto sites that allow betting on sports sims. Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020 But every Wednesday in the city, the races are still running and the betters are still betting. Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020 Or perhaps at America itself for failing the expectations of our moral betters? Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Sep. 2019 In many ways the Model 3 also betters established luxury sedans such as the BMW 3 Series. Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020 Beamon’s leap of 29 feet and 2 1-2 inches betters the mark by one foot, 9 3-4 inches. Paul Montella, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019 As with many other arrangements, the content industry took up with Facebook on the promise of a simpler life—the knotty grot-work of reach and revenue would be handed over to our betters. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2019
Auxiliary verb
And that atonement provides a way for imperfect people to better themselves, to ride the wagon, to fall off the wagon, to climb aboard the wagon again, and keep on rolling in the direction of eternal progression. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 Having a process to evaluate partnerships and making the evaluation results part of vendors’ profiles contributes to better internal decision-making. Bruno Gralpois, Forbes, 15 July 2022 Researchers say this perspective opens the door for employers and health providers to offer a range of modalities that may work for people looking to better their overall health. Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 18 July 2022 Portwood went live on Instagram after news of the ruling went public Tuesday, sharing that she is dedicated to staying positive and exploring her options, also emphasizing the work she's done to better herself in recent years. Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022 Instead, do your best to better yourself a little bit every day for big results. Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2022 The First Step Act gave people who are incarcerated a chance to earn time off their sentence through good behavior or steps to better themselves. Van Jones And Janos Marton, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022 The initial interpretation of ETC was that prisoners could participate in certain programs to better themselves and earn credits toward more time in halfway houses, residential transition centers. Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022 In the wide-ranging conversation, Cooper also opened up about how Arnett helped him on his initial path to recovery, and the two bonded over wanting to better themselves for the sake of their kids. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English betere, bettere, bettre, better, going back to Old English betera, betra, bettra, going back to Germanic *batizōn (whence also Old Frisian betera, betra, Old Saxon betara, Old High German bezziro, Old Icelandic betri, Gothic batiza), comparative degree of an otherwise unattested adjective from a base *bat-, whence also, with lengthened o-grade, *bōtō "improvement," whence Old English bōt "a making good, remedy, improvement, atonement," Old Frisian bōte "atonement, compensation," Old Saxon bōta "remedy, aid, deliverance," Old High German buoza "amendment, remedy, penance, punishment," Old Icelandic bót "remedy, atonement, compensation," Gothic bota "usefulness, profit"; *bat- perhaps going back to Indo-European *bhHd-, zero-grade of a root *bheHd-, whence also Sanskrit bhadráḥ "fortunate, blessed, delightful," Avestan hubaδra- "fortunate" (< *bhoHd-ro, with loss of H before an unaspirated voiced stop)

Note: As do other European languages, Germanic forms the comparative and superlative degrees of the adjective meaning "good" from a different base than the positive degree; compare good entry 1, best entry 1. This Indo-European etymology follows G. Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Brill, 2009), which for the rule of H loss refers to A. Lubotsky, "Gr. pḗgnumi : Skt. pajrá- and loss of laryngeals before mediae in Indo-Iranian," Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Band 40 (1981), pp. 133-38. Other opinions, however, are not in favor of the connection, or agnostic. See A.L. Lloyd and O. Springer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band 1, s.v. baz, where the history of the etymology is traced. M. Mayrhofer maintained that Sanskrit bhadrá- should rather be connected with bhándate "is praised, receives praise" (see Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, Band 2 [Heidelberg, 1996], p. 244).

Verb

Middle English betteren, bettren "to improve, remedy, have the advantage," going back to Old English beterian "to improve, make better," going back to Germanic *batizōjan- (whence also Old Frisian beteria, betria "to atone, improve," Old Saxon betaron "to mend," Old High German bezzirōn "to improve, enrich," Old Icelandic betra "to improve"), verbal derivative of *batizōn better entry 1

Note: In English and other Germanic languages this verb has been augmented by re-formation from the comparative adjective. Note that evidence for the English verb is practically non-existent between Old English and ca. 1400.

Adverb

Middle English bettre, betere, derivative of betere better entry 1

Note: This formation replaces early Modern English, Middle English, and Old English bet, the original Germanic adverbial counterpart to better entry 1

Noun

Middle English bettre, betere, going back to Old English betere, noun derivative of betera, betra better entry 1

Auxiliary verb

by ellipsis from had better

First Known Use

Adjective

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Verb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Adverb

12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Auxiliary Verb

1817, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of better was before the 12th century

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