improving

improving

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɹuːvɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -uːvɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: im‧prov‧ing

Adjective

improving (comparative more improving, superlative most improving)

  1. That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
    • 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric[hard] Davis, Essay 1, p. 2,[1]
      […] that Diviner part of Man, the Soule, which alone is capable of wearing the Glorious Image of its Author, being endowed with two chief Faculties, the Understanding and the Will; the former is blest and perfectionated by Knowledg, and the latter’s Loveliest and most improving property is Goodnesse.

Synonyms

  • edifying
  • uplifting

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Verb

improving

  1. present participle and gerund of improve

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