meliorative

An adjective used to describe something that makes something better or improves it; now rarely used in modern English.

• 🇪🇸Adjetivo que describe algo que mejora o perfecciona algo, o que tiene un efecto positivo; en lingüística, también se refiere a una palabra o expresión que realza o ennoblece el sentido de otra. Es un término poco común y de uso culto o técnico.

1. Tending to improve C2 formal

   Having the effect of making something better; ameliorative.

   • The new policy had a meliorative effect on employee satisfaction.
   • Her comments were meliorative, aiming to resolve the conflict.
   • The medication has a meliorative impact on symptoms.

   🇪🇸Mejorativo / que mejora

   Sinónimos: ameliorativebeneficialbetteringconstructivecorrectivefavorableimprovingremedial

   Antónimos: pejorativeworsening

• more meliorative comparative form
• most meliorative superlative form