meliorative

adj
/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from meliōrō — “make better, improve

Definitions

  1. That meliorates

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meliorative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA