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

• improver
• maneuver
• remover
• louver
• mover