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Meliorative

//ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary. not-comparable, rare

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to ameliorate wordnet

Etymology

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

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