Dictionary Entry
better
better is a 6-letter English word with 30 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 30 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
- 2adjective
Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
- 3adjective
Greater in amount; larger; more.
- 4adjective
Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
- 5adjective
More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
- 6noun
Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
- 7noun
One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
- 8comparative
In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
- 9comparative
More correctly or thoroughly.
- 10comparative
In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
- 11comparative
More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
- 12adjective
To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
- 13adjective
To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
- 14adjective
To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
- 15adjective
To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
- 16intransitive verb
To become better; to improve.
- 17noun
One who bets or lays a wager.
- 18noun
something superior in quality or condition or effect
"a change for the better"
- 19noun
the superior one of two alternatives
"chose the better of the two"
- 20noun
a superior person having claim to precedence
"the common man has been kept in his place by his betters"
- 21noun
someone who bets
- 22verb
get better
"The weather improved toward evening"
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- 23verb
to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
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- 24verb
surpass in excellence
"She bettered her own record"
"break a record"
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- 25adjective
(comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
"it would be better to speak to him"
"the White House thought it best not to respond"
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- 26adjective
(comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"
"a better coat"
- 27adjective
(comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness
"her health is better now"
"I feel better"
- 28adjective
more than half
"argued for the better part of an hour"
- 29adverb
comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.
"She had never sung better"
"a deed better left undone"
- 30adverb
from a position of superiority or authority
"father knows best"
"I know better."
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