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Ameliorative
Definitions
- 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 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 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"
- 1 tending to ameliorate wordnet
- 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 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
From ameliorate + -ive.
From ameliorate + -ive.
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