Brighter vs. Better

Brighter is a Santa Monica-based internet and healthcare company that connects dentists, patients, and dental insurers. The company licenses a consumer-driven dental benefits experience to insurance carriers to help them administer dental plans more efficiently and offer patient-friendly services such as online and mobile provider directories, patient reviews, and a proprietary online appointment scheduling feature, Brighter Schedule.

Greater in amount or quantity

More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.

Example: ‘ten miles and better’;

An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.

Example: ‘He quickly found Ali his better in the ring.’;

alternative spelling of bettor

(transitive) To improve.

(intransitive) To become better; to improve.

(transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.

(transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.

(colloquial) Had better.

Example: ‘You better do that if you know what's good for you.’;

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

Example: ‘Could make the worse appearThe better reason.’;

Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.

Example: ‘To obey is better than sacrifice.’; ‘It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.’;

Greater in amount; larger; more.

Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.

More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.

Example: ‘My dear, my better half (said he),I find I must now leave thee.’; ‘By all that's holy, he had better starveThan but once think this place becomes thee not.’;

Advantage, superiority, or victory; - usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.

One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; - usually in the plural.

Example: ‘Their betters would hardly be found.’;

One who bets or lays a wager.

In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.

Example: ‘I could have better spared a better man.’;

More correctly or thoroughly.

Example: ‘The better to understand the extent of our knowledge.’;

In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.

Example: ‘Never was monarch better feared, and loved.’;

More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.

To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.

Example: ‘Love betters what is best.’; ‘He thought to better his circumstances.’;

To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.

Example: ‘The constant effort of every man to better himself.’;

To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.

Example: ‘The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered.’;

To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.

Example: ‘Weapons more violent, when next we meet,May serve to better us and worse our foes.’;

To become better; to improve.

one having claim to precedence; a superior;

Example: ‘the common man has been kept in his place by his betters’;

someone who bets

the superior one of two alternatives;

Example: ‘chose the better of the two’;

surpass in excellence;

Example: ‘She bettered her own record’; ‘break a record’;

to make better;

Example: ‘The editor improved the manuscript with his changes’;

get better;

Example: ‘The weather improved toward evening’;

(comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another;

Example: ‘You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din’; ‘a better coat’; ‘a better type of car’; ‘a suit with a better fit’; ‘a better chance of success’; ‘produced a better mousetrap’; ‘she's better in math than in history’;

(comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness;

Example: ‘her health is better now’; ‘I feel better’;

(comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable;

Example: ‘it would be better to speak to him’; ‘the White House thought it best not to respond’;

more than half;

Example: ‘argued for the better part of an hour’;

comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.;

Example: ‘She had never sung better’; ‘a deed better left undone’; ‘better suited to the job’;

from a position of superiority or authority;

Example: ‘father knows best’; ‘I know better.’;

more desirable, satisfactory, or effective

Example: ‘the new facilities were far better’; ‘I'm better at doing sums than Alice’; ‘we're hoping for better weather tomorrow’;

more appropriate, advantageous, or well advised

Example: ‘it might be better to borrow the money’; ‘there couldn't be a better time to take up this job’;

partly or fully recovered from illness, injury, or mental stress

Example: ‘his leg was getting better’;

more excellently or effectively

Example: ‘instruments are generally better made these days’; ‘Jonathon could do better if he tried’; ‘sound travels better in water than in air’;

to a greater degree; more (used in connection with success or with desirable actions or conditions)

Example: ‘I liked it better when we lived in the country’; ‘well-fed people are better able to fight off infection’;

more suitably, appropriately, or usefully

Example: ‘the money could be better spent on more urgent cases’;

the better one; that which is better

Example: ‘you've a right to expect better than that’; ‘the Natural History Museum book is by far the better of the two’; ‘a change for the better’;

one's superiors in social class or ability

Example: ‘educating the young to respect their elders and betters’;

variant spelling of bettor

improve on or surpass (an existing or previous level or achievement)

Example: ‘bettering his previous time by ten minutes’; ‘his account can hardly be bettered’;

make (something) better; improve

Example: ‘his ideas for bettering the lot of the millhands’;

achieve a higher social position or status

Example: ‘the residents are mostly Londoners who have bettered themselves’;

overcome or defeat (someone)

Example: ‘she had almost bettered him at archery’;