Ameliorative

Definitions

1. That which betters or improves.
2. A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“With such conventional Keynesian amelioratives, the economy normally recovers with output and employment on the rise⟳, and, unfortunately, with inflation picking up too.”

“It certainly means the stripping from Parliament of endless debates on niggling parsimonies and trivial amelioratives; the thousand and one unreal fights and distractions which has kept democracy from winning the other half of freedom.”

“Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have⟳ always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them.”

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