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)
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. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.