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IMPROVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does improved mean?
• IMPROVED (adjective)
The adjective IMPROVED has 3 senses:
1. made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing
2. become or made better in quality
3. (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush
Familiarity information: IMPROVED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing
Context example:
an improved breed
Similar:
built; reinforced ((used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness)
developed ((of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads)
landscaped ((of land) improved by gardening or landscape architecture)
Antonym:
unimproved (not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become or made better in quality
Context example:
an improved viewfinder
Similar:
better ((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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush
Context example:
improved farmlands
Similar:
cleared (rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush)
Context examples
The school, thus improved, became in time a truly useful and noble institution.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Compared to genistein itself, this crystalline formulation shows improved solubility and bioavailability.
(Crystalline Genistein Formulation AXP107-11, NCI Thesaurus)
Many people are improved by wearing it short and perhaps I should be among the number.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is also used to treat metastatic breast cancer that has not improved after treatment with certain other anticancer drugs.
(Capecitabine, NCI Dictionary)
“Not that he is much to speak of now,” Wolf Larsen went on, but he has improved wonderfully.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The close relationship of the genes involved in breast cancer and Fanconi anemia has helped illuminate this signaling system, and may help lead to improved understanding and treatment of these conditions.
(Cancer Susceptibility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This, though late, and reluctant, and ungracious, was yet better than nothing, and her spirits improved.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Just think how you have improved in the short time I have known you.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Compared to other doxorubicin-containing formulations, this formulation may exhibit an improved toxicity profile due to the lower concentrations of free doxorubicin to which non-malignant tissues are exposed.
(Doxorubicin-HPMA Conjugate, NCI Thesaurus)
Additionally, GOES-R’s improved rainfall estimates will lead to more timely and accurate flood warnings.
(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)
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