Better and Negative

Better

Better verb - To be greater, better, or stronger than.

Negative and better are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Negative" instead a verb "Better".

Negative

Negative verb - To reject by or as if by a vote.

Better and negative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Better" instead a verb "Negative".

Common collocations

everyone better everyone negative everyone

Both words in one sentence

  • But sociopathy generally does not have any better reason to be there than any other sickness (although negative experiences with other human beings will change the way it manifests itself).
  • Kid Icarus: Uprising has negative weapon abilities that can used to free up more value room for better abilities, many of which are nullified with the right setup.
  • Iain Banks's extremely controversial first novel The Wasp Factory went one better, by reprinting every negative review the book had received, alternated with more positive reviews.
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