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Improving vs Growing - What's the difference?

improving | growing |

As adjectives the difference between improving and growing

is that improving is getting better while growing is that grows.

As verbs the difference between improving and growing

is that improving is while growing is .

As a noun growing is

growth; increase.

improving

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • getting better

    • Antonyms

    * deteriorating * sour * worsen

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * improvingly

    growing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • growth; increase
  • * 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
    • Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That grows.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Connected with growing