meliorative

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

• 🇫🇷Adjectif utilisé pour décrire quelque chose qui améliore ou rend meilleur ; rarement employé en anglais moderne.

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.

   🇫🇷améliorant

   Synonymes: ameliorativebeneficialbetteringconstructivecorrectivefavorableimprovingremedial

   Antonymes: pejorativeworsening

• more meliorative comparative form
• most meliorative superlative form