Sekirov Dictionary

ameliorative

/əˈmiːliəɹətɪv/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

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Able to repair or ameliorate.
- 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. — 2007
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.
Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.

noun2

•
That which betters or improves.
- With such conventional Keynesian amelioratives, the economy normally recovers with output and employment on the rise, and, unfortunately, with inflation picking up too. — 1973
•
(rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.
- Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them. — 2015

forms

amelioratives · more ameliorative · most ameliorative

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