Index of English words, starting with "im"

(1) - Improvability (n.) The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

(1) - Improvable (a.) Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
(2) - Improvable (a.) Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.

(1) - Improve (v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
(2) - Improve (v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
(3) - Improve (v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
(4) - Improve (v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
(5) - Improve (v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
(6) - Improve (v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
(7) - Improve (v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
(8) - Improve (v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.

(1) - Improvement (n.) A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
(2) - Improvement (n.) Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(3) - Improvement (n.) Increase; growth; progress; advance.
(4) - Improvement (n.) The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
(5) - Improvement (n.) The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
(6) - Improvement (n.) The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.