Definition of improving

"improving" in the verb sense

1. better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate

to make better

"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

2. better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate

get better

"The weather improved toward evening"

"improving" in the adjective sense

1. improving, up

getting higher or more vigorous

"its an up market"

"an improving economy"

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Quotations for improving

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents: so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for. [ Socrates ]

The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]

Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]

improving in Scrabble®

The word improving is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters improving:

IMPROVING
(189)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (3 words)

priming, proving, romping

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word improving

IMPROVING
(189)
IMPROVING
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IMPROVING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In improving

IMPROVING
(189)
IMPROVING
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IMPROVING
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improving in Words With Friends™

The word improving is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 22

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters improving:

IMPROVING
(306)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (3 words)

priming, proving, romping

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word improving

IMPROVING
(306)
IMPROVING
(192)
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(144)
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(108)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In improving

IMPROVING
(306)
IMPROVING
(192)
IMPROVING
(144)
PROVING
(128 = 93 + 35)
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Words within the letters of improving

2 letter words in improving (7 words)

3 letter words in improving (12 words)

5 letter words in improving (8 words)

7 letter words in improving (3 words)

9 letter words in improving (1 word)

improving + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence improving

Words that start with improving (1 word)

Words with improving in them (1 word)

Words that end with improving (4 words)

Word Growth involving improving

Shorter words in improving

imp improv

in roving proving

Longer words containing improving

misimproving

selfimproving

unimproving