BETTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bettering mean? 

• BETTERING (adjective)
  The adjective BETTERING has 1 sense:

1. changing for the better

  Familiarity information: BETTERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BETTERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing for the better

Similar:

ameliorating; ameliorative; amelioratory; meliorative (tending to ameliorate)

amendatory (effecting amendment)

corrective (tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition)

remedial (tending or intended to rectify or improve)

Antonym:

worsening (changing for the worse)

 Context examples 

Doctor Mell, in a speech replete with feeling, then proposed “Our distinguished Guest, the ornament of our town. May he never leave us but to better himself, and may his success among us be such as to render his bettering himself impossible!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)