bettered
更好的,较好的,较好,更好
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Definitions
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comparative of good, with best as superlative.
- : of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- : morally superior; more virtuous: They are no better than thieves.
- : of superior suitability, advisability, desirability, acceptableness, etc.; preferable: a better time for action.
- : larger; greater: the better part of a lifetime.
- : improved in health; healthier than before.
- : completely recovered in health.
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comparative of well, with best as superlative.
- : in a more appropriate or acceptable way or manner: to behave better.
- : to a greater degree; more completely or thoroughly: He knows the way better than we do. I probably know him better than anyone else.
- : more: I walked better than a mile to town.
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- : to increase the good qualities of; make better; improve: to better one's grades;to better the lot of the suburban commuter.
- : to improve upon; surpass; exceed: We have bettered last year's production record.
- : Cards. to raise.
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- : that which has greater excellence or is preferable or wiser: the better of two choices.
- : Usually betters . those superior to one in wisdom, wealth, etc.
Phrases
- better half
- better late than never
- better off
- better part of
- better safe than sorry
- better than
- against one's better judgment
- all better
- all the better
- discretion is the better part of valor
- for better or for worse
- get better
- get the better (best) of
- go one better
- had better (best)
- know better
- seen better days
- so much the better
- sooner the better
- take a turn for the better
- think better of
- you'd better believe it
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
They’re also going to have to do a much better job of making the case for why they exist so their donors, even in a tight financial time, feel the need to continue to support the work that they do.
VOSD contributor Jared Whitlock requested death certificates in April to see where the virus was moving and to better understand how the county was managing the public health crisis.
Ironically, with covid-19, there’s probably never been a better opportunity to find someone outside the organization who would gladly take your boss’s place.
Those records could be used to track the virus, compare the accuracy of reported data and better understand how the county was managing the public health crisis.
Peale and his family moved their own home to the basement of the museum, so as to better manage the ever-growing enterprise.
If they believe change has bettered their lives, 2016 could be another good day for Republicans.
In this case, the embarrassing stumble may have bettered her score.
He regarded it simply as a civil war, by which 'the condition of no nation,' as he wrote later, 'was ever bettered.'
At first my change in bodily build and bettered health rendered me hardly recognisable to my friends.
Not a night but some brown maiden Bettered all the dusk she strayed in, While the roses in her hair Bankrupted oblivion there.
May all men's lot be bettered, all women's sorrow lessened, to whom this tale of woes shall be recounted.
Hodge dropped his nines, which he had not bettered, and that left Merriwell and Snell to fight it out.