Amelioration

//əˌmiːliəˈɹeɪʃən//

Synonyms for "amelioration" (99 found)

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Closest matches (20)

Noun(1 words)
betterment

Strong matches (30)

Noun(1 words)
melioration

Related words (49)

Noun(1 words)
revamp

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Translations

39 translations across 17 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • подобрение noun (improvement)
  • подобряване noun (act of making better)

Catalan

1 entries
  • millora noun (act of making better)

Danish

2 entries
  • forbedre noun (act of making better)
  • forbedring noun (improvement)

French

1 entries
  • amélioration noun (improvement)

Galician

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  • mellora noun (act of making better)
  • melloramento noun (act of making better)
  • melloría noun (act of making better)

German

4 entries
  • Besserung noun (act of making better)
  • Besserung noun (improvement)
  • Melioration noun (improvement)
  • Verbesserung noun (act of making better)

Italian

2 entries
  • miglioramento noun (improvement)
  • miglioria noun (act of making better)

Japanese

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  • 改良 noun (act of making better)

Latin

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  • meliōrātiō noun (improvement)

Malay

1 entries
  • ameliorasi noun (process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time)

Polish

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  • amelioracja noun (act of making better)
  • ulepszenie noun (act of making better)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • melhora noun (improvement)
  • melhoramento noun (act of making better)
  • melhoria noun (improvement)

Romanian

2 entries
  • ameliorare noun (act of making better)
  • îmbunătățire noun (act of making better)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • amelioracija noun (act of making better)
  • amelioracija noun (improvement)
  • melioracija noun (improvement)
  • melioracija noun (process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time)

Spanish

4 entries
  • mejora noun (act of making better)
  • mejora noun (improvement)
  • mejoramiento noun (act of making better)
  • mejoría noun (act of making better)

Swedish

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  • förbättring noun (act of making better)
  • förbättring noun (improvement)

Yiddish

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  • פֿאַרבעסערונג noun (act of making better)
  • פֿאַרבעסערונג noun (improvement)
  • תּיקון noun (improvement)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I hope that everything will bring about the amelioration of the world and mankind.

Source: tatoeba (642188)

The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!

Source: wiktionary

pre-amelioration

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post-amelioration

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