Ameliorative

//əˈmiːliəɹətɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.

    "[…]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[…]"

  3. 3
    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"

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to ameliorate wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation. rare

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From ameliorate + -ive.

Etymology 2

From ameliorate + -ive.

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