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Definition of Meliorate
1. Verb. To make better. "They meliorate their earnings this year"; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Specialized synonyms: Alleviate, Assuage, Palliate, Relieve, Aid, Help, Regenerate, Revitalize, Enrich, Build Up, Develop, Turn Around, Help, Upgrade, Condition, Emend, Iron Out, Put Right, Straighten Out, Enhance, Bushel, Doctor, Fix, Furbish Up, Mend, Repair, Restore, Touch On, Reform, Reform, Beautify, Embellish, Fancify, Prettify, Build, Hone, Perfect, Down, Fine-tune, Polish, Refine, Distill, Make Pure, Purify, Sublimate, Fructify, Lift, Raise, Advance, Upgrade, Educate
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Causes: Ameliorate, Better, Improve
Related verbs: Ameliorate, Better, Improve
Derivative terms: Amelioration, Ameliorative, Amelioratory, Amendable, Better, Betterment, Improvement, Improver, Improver, Melioration, Melioration, Meliorative
Antonyms: Worsen
2. Verb. Get better. "Their earnings meliorate this year"; "The weather improved toward evening"
Specialized synonyms: Convalesce, Recover, Recuperate, Heal, Reform, See The Light, Straighten Out, Surge, Pick Up, Turn Around, Bounce Back, Get Over, Get Well, Heal, Mend, Fructify, Upgrade
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Ameliorate, Amend, Better, Improve
Derivative terms: Amelioration, Ameliorative, Amelioratory, Better, Betterment, Improvement, Improvement, Melioration, Melioration, Melioration, Meliorative
Antonyms: Worsen
Definition of Meliorate
1. v. t. To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
2. v. i. To grow better.
Definition of Meliorate
1. Verb. (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meliorate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorate
Literary usage of Meliorate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1790)
"G. IT is a faft well known to farmers, that Come dreams of water meliorate the
ground, and others, 06 the contrary, impoverish it. ..."
2. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"... the late Dr. Buchanan, who presented their case to the public, in his Christian
Researches, since which much has been done to meliorate their condition. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"... and so thereby to meliorate the common, yet A- in this the court there was
divided two ... meliorate ..."
4. Solitude Considered: With Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the by Johann Georg Zimmermann (1795)
"... refine, and meliorate the lurking inclinations of the heart, and afford a
variety of ... meliorate ..."
5. Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, Or the Army of the by William Denison Bickham (1863)
"OFFICIAL Intercourse between General Rosecrans and General Bragg— An Effort to
meliorate the Severities of War—Mutual Reproaches— Violation of a Flag of ..."
6. Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of by Francis Hardy (1812)
"gaged in every rational scheme, and embraced every wise suggestion, that tended
to meliorate the condition of his country. I have already endeavoured, ..."
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