Meaning of self-improvement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.
   countable, uncountable
2. The bettering of one's status.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.”

“In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society".”

“Ambition and self-improvement are certainly not negatives, although one potential downside to being more self-conscious—especially for punk bands—is muted urgency.”

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