meliorate

Other forms of meliorate

past tense

meliorated·

present participle

meliorating·

third person

meliorates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meliorate

What does meliorate mean?

meliorate means "to make better". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meliorate?

meliorate has 4 syllables: me-li-o-rate. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for meliorate?

Close synonyms include better, improve, amend, ameliorate, better. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meliorate a common word?

meliorate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.