Enhancing

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of enhancing; enhancement.

    "Evidence is sought for rebutting, not for confirming; and so, of course, little gets established; and even where facts are incontestable, the principles on which they were performed—the views of the agents—the objects aimed at—the palliatives—the enhancings— are all matter of contention; and neither party will give up an inch, lest the outworks should involve the citadel."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of enhance form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Acting or tending to enhance.

    "A few sounds were consistently more enhancing, while most were consistently more detracting."

Example

More examples

"There is no doubt that enhancing user experience is the last thing webmasters think about when they add social bookmarking widgets to their sites."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.