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Meaning of "ameliorative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AMELIORATIVE

ameliorative  [əˈmiːljərətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMELIORATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ameliorative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AMELIORATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Semantic change

Semantic change is the evolution of word usage — usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. In diachronic linguistics, semantic change is a change in one of the meanings of a word. Every word has a variety of senses and connotations, which can be added, removed, or altered over time, often to the extent that cognates across space and time have very different meanings. The study of semantic change can be seen as part of etymology, onomasiology, semasiology, and semantics.

Definition of ameliorative in the English dictionary

The definition of ameliorative in the dictionary is serving to ameliorate.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMELIORATIVE


alliterative
əˈlɪtərətɪv
collaborative
kəˈlæbərətɪv
commemorative
kəˈmɛmərətɪv
cooperative
kəʊˈɒpərətɪv
corroborative
kəˈrɒbərətɪv
curative
ˈkjʊərətɪv
decorative
ˈdɛkərətɪv
evaporative
ɪˈvæpərətɪv
figurative
ˈfɪɡərətɪv
generative
ˈdʒɛnərətɪv
inoperative
ɪnˈɒpərətɪv
iterative
ˈɪtərətɪv
non-cooperative
nɒnkəʊˈɒpərətɪv
operative
ˈɒpərətɪv
postoperative
pəʊstˈɒpərətɪv
preoperative
priːˈɒpərətɪv
proliferative
prəˈlɪfərətɪv
regenerative
rɪˈdʒenərətɪv
ulcerative
ˈʌlsərətɪv
uncooperative
ˌʌnkəʊˈɒpərətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMELIORATIVE

ameboid
ameer
ameerate
ameiosis
amelcorn
amelia
ameliorable
ameliorant
ameliorate
amelioration
ameliorator
amelioratory
ameloblast
amelogenesis
amen
amen corner
Amen-Ra
amenability
amenable
amenableness

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMELIORATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
comparative
conservative
creative
cumulative
derivative
illustrative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
qualitative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of ameliorative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ameliorative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMELIORATIVE

Find out the translation of ameliorative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ameliorative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ameliorative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

改良
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ameliorative
570 millions of speakers

English

ameliorative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उन्नति करनेवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحسينية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мелиоративное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ameliorative
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উন্নতিসাধক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

d´amélioration
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Amelioratif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Besserungs
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寛解
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

개량의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ameliorative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cải thiện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ameliorative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुधारात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iyileşebilir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

migliorativo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

łagodzący
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

меліоративне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ameliorative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βελτιωτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbeteringsmaatreëls
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förbättrande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ameliorative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ameliorative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMELIORATIVE»

The term «ameliorative» is regularly used and occupies the 92.646 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMELIORATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ameliorative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ameliorative» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ameliorative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMELIORATIVE»

Discover the use of ameliorative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ameliorative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ameliorative curriculum : directed play
The purpose of directed play is to provide teachers with ideas for planning and preparing stimulating play settings and activities.
Merle B. Karnes, Iva Dene Nance, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, 1970
2
Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-century Chinese ...
After arguing for the broadening of the parameters of the definition of the satiric novel and the inclusion of a number of novels previously excluded from the category, Wu devotes the bulk of the work to the presentation of Marriage as ...
Yenna Wu, 1999
3
Property: Keyed to Dukeminier/Krier/Alexander/Schill, ...
Ameliorative waste: When the life tenant acts affirmatively to change the principal use of the land, and thereby increases the value of the land, ameliorative waste has occurred. Ameliorative waste is actionable, however, only when it is clear ...
Massey, 2010
4
Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
3. Extracting. Epistemic. Lessons. from. Ameliorative. Psychology. A. meliorative Psychology offers a number of useful normative recom- mendations about how people (or at least some people) ought to reason. One of our main goals in this ...
Michael A Bishop Associate Professor of Philosophy Northern Illinois University, J. D. Trout Professor of Philosophy and Psychology Loyola University Chicago, 2004
5
Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform
Public assistance income and poverty To what extent has public assistance income, both before and after TANF, improved the economic well-being of female family heads? In Table 3.3, we evaluate the ameliorative effects of public assistance.
Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, Leslie A. Whitener, 2002
6
Guilt as Threat: The Ameliorative Effects of Empathy on ...
Finally, additional analyses revealed that under the burden of prejudiced label, the willingness of white students to interact with and accept Blacks in various roles was most predictive of higher applicant ratings.
Damion S. Jones, 2006
7
Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under ...
Nonetheless, we have typically developed ameliorative programs to remedy our history of race discrimination simply by giving preferences to "blacks." Rarely do we consider which blacks may be most deserving of such ameliorative treatment  ...
Ruth Colker, Mary Louise Fellows, 1996
8
Ameliorative Role of Achyranthes Aspera in Arsenic Treated ...
Achyranthes aspera is good sources of antioxidants and phytochemicals.
Veena Sharma, Urmila Chaudhary, Rashmi Singh, 2012
9
Resilience and Development: Positive Life Adaptations
I suggest the use of the term ameliorative to refer to factors that have direct or indirect effects on the increase of benign or the decrease of maleficent outcomes. Alternative terms such as counteracting or compensatory factors presume the ...
Meyer D. Glantz, Jeannette L. Johnson, 1999
10
Epistemic Paternalism: A Defence
Thus understood, epistemology is not only normative, in the sense that it concerns itself with specifically epistemic goods – goods like true belief, knowledge, understanding and so on – but also ameliorative, in that it attempts to say something ...
Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMELIORATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ameliorative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Maharashtra plans cloud seeding if dry spell continues
The state had floated the cloud seeding idea to serve as an ameliorative measure in case there was a dry spell or deficient rains. The official ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
2
Recent IRS policy shift requires taxpayers to reevaluate decisions …
... policy, we must reevaluate the risks and rewards of original decisions, so long as there is the possibility of adaptive and ameliorative action. «Lexology, Jul 15»
3
Gaza's landfills threaten citizens' health
This increase is not coupled with ameliorative technical measures such as increasing the landfill's space, machineries or number of workers, ... «Al-Monitor, Jun 15»
4
Labour has no thinkers: until it does, it will carry on losing
That could work for Labour, if it were offering sensible, thought-through, ameliorative change. But that is a long way over the horizon. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
5
Records from a rented room: 'The tragedy of Billie Holiday's life …
... realities of racial prejudice and the redemptive, ameliorative power of art”, while Q Magazine described it as one of the “10 songs that actually ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
6
Murky nuclear plan no light at end of tunnel
Ameliorative interventions such as the construction of new electricity generation in the form of small coal, gas and renewable plants will not take ... «BDlive, Jun 15»
7
Dr Peter Phillips said nothing wrong during that national broadcast …
... about the country's economic challenges and the necessity for painful ameliorative actions. Well, like it or not, the chickens have come home ... «Jamaica Observer, Jun 15»
8
What happened to the consumer oil bonanza?
... short-term zero-sum income trade-off between the oil sector and households, before the more ameliorative impact of greater spending power ... «Citywire.co.uk, Jun 15»
9
Still too many going hungry
In an agrarian economy like ours where 82 per cent of the farmsteads are in the hands of small and marginal farmers, a number of ameliorative ... «Hindu Business Line, Jun 15»
10
A mediation on Youth Day: 16 June, 2015
It may have some ameliorative effect on those who are temporarily out of work who manage to get some of these jobs, but increasingly, it does ... «The Daily Vox, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ameliorative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ameliorative>. Apr 2024 ».
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