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better1
adj
    1. More excellent, suitable or desirable, etc.
      Thesaurus: superior, greater, finer, preferred, stronger, surpassing, worthier.
    2. More successful, skilful, etc in doing it.
      Form: better at something (usually)
    3. Partly or fully improved in health or recovered from illness.
      Thesaurus: convalescent, recovering, improving, mending, progressing, restored, cured; Antonym: worse, failing.
      Form: be better (especially)
      Form: feel better
      Form: get better
    4. Greater.
      Example: the better part of a day
adverb
    1. More excellently, successfully or fully, etc.
      Example: You can see better from here
    2. In or to a greater degree.
      Example: knows the area better than I do
noun
    1. A person superior in quality or status, etc.
      Example: Respect your elders and betters
      Form: betters (especially)
    2. The thing or person that is the more excellent or suitable, etc of two comparable things or people.
      Example: This is the better of my two attempts
      Form: the better
verb bettered, bettering
    1. To beat or improve on something.
      Example: can't better his original score
      Thesaurus: excel, surpass, transcend, outdo, outstrip.
    2. To make something more suitable, desirable or excellent, etc.
      Example: set out to better the conditions for the workers
      Thesaurus: improve, revamp, refine, further, ameliorate; Antonym: deteriorate, worsen.
Idiom: all the better for something
    Very much better as a result of it.
Idiom: better off
    More affluent or fortunate; wealthier or in happier circumstances.
Idiom: better oneself
    To improve one's position or social standing.
Idiom: for better or for worse
    No matter what happens.
      Thesaurus: regardless, in any event, no matter what happens, anyhow.
Idiom: get the better of someone
    To gain the advantage over them; to outwit them.
Idiom: go one better than someone
    To beat them by improving on what they have done, achieved or offered, etc.
Idiom: had better do something
    Ought to do it, especially in order to avoid some undesirable outcome.
      Example: I had better go now
Idiom: so much the better
    That is, or would be, preferable.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon betera; 14c as verb 2.



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