EGAVE

ameliorative

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Able to repair or ameliorate.
  2. adjective Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
  3. adjective 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.
    ameliorative inquiry
  4. noun That which betters or improves.
  5. noun A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.

Similar words

meliorative bettering improvement positive ameliorable meliorable meliorated betterable mendable salutary

Often followed by

measures effect action and effects legislation programs social efforts

Word family

ameliorate ameliorated ameliorates ameliorating amelioration ameliorations ameliorator ameliorators amelioratory

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