improving

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɹuːvɪŋ/ Rhymes: -uːvɪŋ Hyphenation: im‧prov‧ing === Adjective === improving (comparative more improving, superlative most improving) That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person). 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric[hard] Davis, Essay 1, p. 2,[1] […] that Diviner part of Man, the Soule, which alone is capable of wearing the Glorious Image of its Author, being endowed with two chief Faculties, the Understanding and the Will; the former is blest and perfectionated by Knowledg, and the latter’s Loveliest and most improving property is Goodnesse. ==== Synonyms ==== edifying uplifting ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === improving present participle and gerund of improve