Meaning of Ameliorative | Babel Free

Definitions

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