Ameliorative

/əˈmiːliəɹətɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Able to repair or ameliorate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Able to repair or ameliorate.
2. (linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
3. (philosophy) Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.
4. That which betters or improves.
5. (linguistics, rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.

Example Sentences

One night while he was moaning on about his sorry existence I said: Do you really want to change it? Of course I do, he said, but nothing I’ve tried has been ameliorative.

[…]personal nicknames can generally be divided into positively marked (ameliorative) ones, usually given by family members and friends as a sign of affection and acceptance, and those negatively marked (pejorative or derogatory), whose aim is to mock or ridicule a person[…]

ameliorative inquiry

ameliorative analysis

ameliorative project

With such conventional Keynesian amelioratives, the economy normally recovers with output and employment on the rise, and, unfortunately, with inflation picking up too.

It certainly means the stripping from Parliament of endless debates on niggling parsimonies and trivial amelioratives; the thousand and one unreal fights and distractions which has kept democracy from winning the other half of freedom.

Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them.

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Word Forms

• more ameliorative
• most ameliorative
• amelioratives

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