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Definition of Ameliorative
1. Adjective. Tending to ameliorate.
Similar to: Bettering
Derivative terms: Ameliorate, Ameliorate, Ameliorate, Ameliorate, Meliorate, Meliorate
Definition of Ameliorative
1. a. Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.
Definition of Ameliorative
1. Adjective. Able to repair or ameliorate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ameliorative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ameliorative
Literary usage of Ameliorative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1915)
"CHAPTER XII ameliorative EFFORTS t~ I \HE reader will desire to know what, if •*•
any, have been the efforts to ameliorate the evils described in preceding ..."
2. Economic Development of Modern Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1917)
"Beginnings of ameliorative Legislation: Peel's " Health and Morals" Act, 1802.
The delusion was a comfortable one, and England abandoned it with extreme ..."
3. Juvenile Offenders by William Douglas Morrison (1897)
"... not deter—Why punishment is ineffective—Punishment does not remove the conditions
which produce crime— The ameliorative method of dealing with juvenile ..."
4. Dynamic Sociology, Or Applied Social Science, as Based Upon Statical by Lester Frank Ward (1883)
"... of government—Superficial character of historical and political events—ameliorative
function of government—The two opposite schools of sociologists, ..."
5. Dynamic Sociology: Or Applied Social Science by Lester Frank Ward (1897)
"... historical and political events—ameliorative function of government—The two
opposite schools of sociologists, both of which avoid the vital question ..."
6. The Mystery of Miracles: A Scientific and Philosophical Investigation by Joseph William Reynolds (1881)
"Our own advance in the glorious products of thought and art is somewhat akin to
the ameliorative process that is being wrought in the earth. ..."
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