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Synonyms for optimize

Most common

improve enhance hone sophisticate

All synonyms

Verb

1. Improve — to make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program

improve, enhance, hone, perfect, sophisticate

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.

    The website was redesigned to optimize user experience.

Related words

Word family
optimal optimism optimist optimum
Other spellings
optimalise UK optimalize optimise UK

Forms

Past participle
optimized
e.g. optimized → improved, enhanced, honed, perfected…

Example sentences

  • improve This app will help you improve your English level.
  • enhance Algeria needs to enhance its regional connectivity.
  • hone GPS allows us to hone in on the correct location.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
optimizerising
improvesteady
enhancerising
honerising
sophisticatesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
hone1
7 letters
perfect2, improve2, enhance2
12 letters
sophisticate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (perfect2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
optimiser
Deutsch
optimieren