Word Meanings - REFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. The example

Additional info about word: REFORM

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. Swift. Syn. -- To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better; improve; restore; reclaim.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFORM)

• Amend
• Improve
• mend
• repair
• correct
• rectify
• better
• ameliorate
• reform
• Better
• Meliorate
• improve
• amend
• emend
• Correct Chasten
• punish
• redress
• set right
• Mend
• Repair
• restore
• promote
• Reclaim
• Reform
• recal
• recover
• regain
• rescue
• convert

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REFORM)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to REFORM)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.