self-improver

noun

self-im·​prov·​er ˌself-im-ˈprü-vər 

plural self-improvers

: a person who engages in self-improvement

I love women's magazines that offer five-step solutions to all of life's problems. … As a veteran self-improver, I find articles like these almost irresistible.

—Kate Hilton

The best feature story of the weekend was a Wall Street Journal profile of Max Deutsch, 24, a San Francisco entrepreneur and serial self-improver who sets improbable goals (like learning Hebrew, solving a Rubik's Cube in 17 seconds, memorizing a deck of cards in two minutes, developing perfect pitch), gives himself a very short period (about a month) to attain them and, by and large, succeeds.

—James Warren

Examples of self-improver in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington. —John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1658, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for self-improver

• approver
• improver
• maneuver
• remover
• louver
• mover