What does "meliorative" mean?

That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.

What is a synonym for "meliorative"?

Common synonyms include: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory, looking up, mending, ongoing.

Pronounced //ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv//.

/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/ adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Adjective

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That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary. not-comparable, rare
"We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes."

Adjective

"We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes."

From Late Latin meliōrō (“make better, improve”) + English -ative (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).