Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience

658. Improvement.

   NOUN:IMPROVEMENT, amelioration, melioration, betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending &c. v.; advancement; advance (progress) [See Progression]; ascent [See Ascent]; promotion, preferment; elevation [See Elevation]; increase [See Increase].
  CULTIVATION, culture, march of intellect, menticulture; race-culture, acculturation, civilization; culture zone; eugenics.
  REFORM, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limœ labor [L.], refinement, elaboration; purification [See Cleanness]; repair (res toration) [See Restoration]; recovery [See Restoration].
  REVISE, revised edition, new edition, new issue.
  REFORMER, reformist, progressive, radical.
   VERB:IMPROVE; be -, become -, get- better; mend, amend.
  advance (progress) [See Progression]; ascend [See Ascent]; increase [See Increase]; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one’s head, have sown one’s wild oats; recover [See Restoration].
  PROFIT BY; be better &c. adj., be improved by; turn to -right, – good, – best- account; reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.
  RENDER BETTER, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate, relieve; correct; repair (restore) [See Restoration]; doctor (remedy) [See Remedy]; purify [See Cleanness]; decrassify.
  improve -, refine- upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.
  REFRESH, revive; put -, infuse- new blood into; invigorate (strengthen) [See Strength]; reinvigorate, recruit, renew, make over, revivify, freshen.
  PROMOTE, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster [See Aid].
  TOUCH UP, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; put in order (arrange) [See Arrangement].
  REVISE, edit, redact, digest, review, make corrections, make improvements &c. n.
  REFORM, remodel, reorganize; build -afresh, – anew; reclaim, civilize; lift, uplift, inspire; new-model.
  view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.
  PALLIATE, mitigate; lessen [See Nonincrease, Decrease] an evil.
   ADJECTIVE:BETTER, – off, – for; all the better for; better advised; improving &c. v.; progressive, improved &c. v.
  REFORMATORY, emendatory; reparatory (restorative) [See Restoration]; remedial [See Remedy].
  CORRIGIBLE, improvable, curable; accultural.
   ADVERB:ON CONSIDERATION, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice; on the mend, on the upgrade; ad melius inquirendum [L.].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Urbem latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.
2. To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in, and to lend a hand.—Hale