Synonyms of the word

better

• adj. comparative form of good: more good.
• adj. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
• n. An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
• v. (transitive) To improve.
• v. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
• v. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
• v. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
• v. (colloquial) Had better.
• n. Alternative spelling of bettor.

advisable

• adj. (of a course of action) Worthy of being recommended; desirable.
• adj. (of a person) Capable of being advised or willing to be advised.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

ameliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

amend

• v. (transitive) To make better.
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
• v. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

amended

• adj. That has been modified from a previous form.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of amend.

best

• adj. superlative form of good: most good.
• adj. Most; largest.
• adv. superlative form of well: most well.
• adv. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
• n. (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
• n. (uncountable) One's best behavior.
• n. (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
• v. To surpass in skill or achievement.
• v. (transitive) To beat in a contest;.

bettor

• n. A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

exceed

• v. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
• v. (transitive) To be better than (something).
• v. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
• v. (intransitive) To predominate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.

finer

• adj. comparative form of fine: more fine.
• n. One who fines or purifies.

fitter

• adj. comparative form of fit: more fit.
• n. a person who fits or assembles something.
• n. (informal) an epileptic.
• n. (Britain, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.

gambler

• n. One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
• n. One who takes risks.

good

• adj. (of people).
• adj. (of capabilities).
• adj. (of properties and qualities).
• adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
• adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
• adj. (of quantities).
• interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
• adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
• n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
• n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
• n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
• n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
• v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

goodness

• n. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.
• n. (countable) The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) God.
• n. (Christianity) The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.

healthier

• adj. comparative form of healthy: more healthy.

higher-up

• n. Somebody with greater authority, seniority, rank, status or position; one who outranks.

improve

• v. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
• v. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
• v. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

improved

• adj. That has been made better; enhanced.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of improve.

major

• n. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.
• adj. Of great significance or importance.
• adj. Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
• adj. Of full legal age, having attained majority.
• adj. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.
• adj. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• adj. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
• n. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at…
• n. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given…
• n. A person of legal age.
• n. (logic) The major premise.
• n. (Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
• n. A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
• n. (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
• v. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university.

meliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

outdo

• v. (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

outgo

• v. (poetic) To go out, to set forth.
• v. (archaic) To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
• v. To overtake; to travel faster than.
• v. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
• n. The act or process of going out.
• n. A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
• n. (business, commerce) an expenditure, cost or outlay.

outmatch

• v. (transitive) to surpass or be better than something or someone else.

outperform

• v. To perform better than something or someone.

outstrip

• v. (transitive) To outrun or leave behind.
• v. (transitive) To exceed, excel or surpass.

punter

• n. One who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).
• n. One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon).
• n. One who punts a football.
• n. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, slang) one who gambles. See speculator.
• n. (Britain, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a…
• n. (climbing) A beginner or unskilled climber.
• n. (Internet slang) A program used to forcibly disconnect another user from a network.

superior

• adj. Higher in quality.
• adj. Higher in rank.
• adj. More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
• adj. Located above.
• adj. Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
• adj. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.
• n. A person of higher rank or quality.
• n. The senior person in a monastic community.

superordinate

• adj. Greater in degree, rank or position.
• adj. (logic) The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal…
• adj. (linguistics, of a word or phrase) hypernymic.
• n. That which is superordinate.
• n. (linguistics) A hypernym.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be superordinate.

surmount

• v. To get over; to overcome.
• v. To cap; to sit on top off.

surpass

• v. (transitive) To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

wagerer

• n. A person who wagers or bets.