ameliorative
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- adjective
- /əˈmiːliəˌreɪtɪv/
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mejorativo
- SEDUE's national budget, increased to $3 million for 1991, is scarcely sufficient to cover salaries or the cost of ameliorative projects.
- ameliorative measures
Examples
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Social workers must carefully consider the differential impact of community violence on their young clients so that they may effectively plan and implement appropriate ameliorative, protective, and preventive interventions.
Academic text (1997) -
Ameliorative strategies, however, need to be based on sound research in the areas of health, work, and retirement.
Academic text (1991) -
And I have always been concerned with social ameliorative research to see what we can do to improve the lot of the human condition.
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Or should they be viewed for the time being as only at risk, especially insofar as ameliorative measures may be deployed to safeguard them?
Academic text (1993) -
Honduras's military authoritarian regime voluntarily enacted ameliorative economic policies and gradually returned power to civilians.
Academic text (2000) -
Preventive and ameliorative interventions aimed at reducing levels of psychological distress might focus on screening for the absence of these protective resources and identifying individuals who can benefit from interventions focused on building protection.
Academic text (2009) -
As the prospects for such a social cataclysm have faded over time, the party has increasingly emphasized the ameliorative value of trade unions in capitalist society.
Blog text (31) -
The improved weight gain of the previously feed-restricted birds fed ascorbic acid-supplemented diets indicates the ameliorative effect of ascorbic acid on the weight gain of birds.
Academic text (2015) -
On the one hand, the commission must be "reasonable" in requiring polluters to take ameliorative measures, accept restrictions, or observe precautions against environmental damage—and it specifically considers the technical feasibility of such requirements in reviewing permit applications.
Academic text (1998) -
The government introduced an ameliorative program to improve the living conditions of low-income families.
Synonyms
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3.9
Helpful in a way that makes something better
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3.4
Making something better or producing a good result
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5.2
Made to fix a problem or fault
To help make something better
Intended to make something better
Helps restore health or strength
To make pain or a bad situation easier to bear
Having a good effect on people or things
Antonyms
How Helpful
Surface Forms
Morphology
ameliorative = ameliorate (transparent) = ameliorate + ive
An adjectival form derived directly from the verb 'ameliorate' with the productive suffix '-ive', meaning 'having the quality or effect of improving'.
Etymology
Ameliorative comes from an old Latin root melior that means 'better', and it entered English through French words that meant 'to make better'. So an ameliorative action is one that aims to improve a situation or make things 'better'.