Better is the comparative of good .

Better is the comparative of well .

If you like one thing better than another, you like it more.

If you are better after an illness or injury, you have recovered from it. If you feel better, you no longer feel so ill.

You use had better or 'd better when you are advising, warning, or threatening someone, or expressing an opinion about what should happen.

If you say that you expect or deserve better, you mean that you expect or deserve a higher standard of achievement, behaviour, or treatment from people than they have shown you.

Your betters are people who have a higher status or rank than you do.

If someone betters a high achievement or standard, they achieve something higher.

If you better your situation, you improve your social status or the quality of your life. If you better yourself, you improve your social status.

Better is used to form the comparative of compound adjectives beginning with 'good' and 'well.' For example, the comparative of 'well-off' is 'better-off.'

You can say that someone is better doing one thing than another, or it is better doing one thing than another, to advise someone about what they should do.

If something changes for the better, it improves.

If a feeling such as jealousy, curiosity, or anger gets the better of you, it becomes too strong for you to hide or control.

If you get the better of someone, you defeat them in a contest, fight, or argument.

If someone knows better than to do something, they are old enough or experienced enough to know it is the wrong thing to do.

If you know better than someone, you have more information, knowledge, or experience than them.

If you say that someone would be better off doing something, you are advising them to do it or expressing the opinion that it would benefit them to do it.

If you go one better, you do something better than it has been done before or obtain something better than someone else has.

You say 'That's better' in order to express your approval of what someone has said or done, or to praise or encourage them.

You can say 'so much the better' or 'all the better' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available.

You can use expressions like 'The bigger the better' or 'The sooner the better' to say that you would prefer it if something is big or happens soon.

If you do something the better to do something else, you do the first thing in order to be able to do the second thing more effectively.

If you intend to do something and then think better of it, you decide not to do it because you realize it would not be sensible.

If you say that something has happened or been done for better or worse, you mean that you are not sure whether the consequences will be good or bad, but they will have to be accepted because the action cannot be changed.