meliorative

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/
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/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/ · /ˈmiːlɪəɹətɪv/ · /ˈmiːljəɹətɪv/

Definition of meliorative

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable, rare)That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
    “We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes.”
    “Peel has no meliorative and restorative principle to propose.”

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Etymology

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

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