meliorative
adj/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/
Etymology
From Late Latin meliōrō (“make better, improve”) + English -ative (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).
Definitions
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.
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