meliorative
- adjective
- /mɛliˈɔrətɪv/
:
mejorativo
- We think of political action as meliorative, as capable of being designed to improve our lot.
Examples
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For the actors, regimes are willed constructs, creating orders expected by their members to benefit them; international regimes are intended to be meliorative.
Academic text (1990) -
The government's meliorative policies aim to enhance the quality of life for all citizens.
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Satan in Paradise Lost—each is the antagonist of a historical process that is represented as being meliorative and ordained.
Academic text (2003) -
False generalizations have been succeeded by other false generalizations, pejorative by meliorative lumping.
Academic text (1992) -
Somaesthetics can be provisionally defined as the critical, meliorative study of the experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aisthesis) and creative self-fashioning.
Academic text (2000) -
The community center offers meliorative programs aimed at helping residents improve their skills.
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Her meliorative approach to teaching encourages students to strive for better results.
Synonyms
5
7.6
Has a good effect on health and on getting better after a hard time
1
8.9
That helps make a situation better
Intended to make something better
Antonyms
How Beneficial
Surface Forms
Morphology
meliorative = ameliorate (semi-transparent) = melior + ive
The adjective is formed from the verb 'ameliorate' with the regular adjectival suffix '-ive', but the Latin-derived root 'melior' is not a standalone modern English word, so the morphological relation may not be fully obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Meliorative comes from the Latin root melior, which means 'better', and it shares the same idea as the common word ameliorate. So a meliorative action is one that helps to 'improve' or make something 'better'.