improve
/ɪmˈpɹuːv/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Painting the woodwork will improve this house."
- "Buying more servers would improve performance."
- "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster."
- "I have improved since taking the tablets."
- "The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible."
- "“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”"
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: emprouwer, en-, prode, improbō