ameliorative
Adjective
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Adjective
ameliorative
- Able to repair or ameliorate.
ameliorative (plural amelioratives)
- That which betters or improves.
- 1973, Alan Gartner, Public service employment (page 106)
- With such conventional Keynesian amelioratives, the economy normally recovers with output and employment on the rise, and, unfortunately, with inflation picking up too.
- 1944, Charles Smith, An Economic Plan for Democracy (page 3)
- It certainly means the stripping from Parliament of endless debates on niggling parsimonies and trivial amelioratives; the thousand and one unreal fights and distractions which has kept democracy from winning the other half of freedom.
- 1973, Alan Gartner, Public service employment (page 106)
- (grammar) A construct that implies a more positive or approving outlook.
- 2015, Nicola Grandi, Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology (page 4)
- Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them.
- 2015, Nicola Grandi, Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology (page 4)
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